Looking back, I'm relieved I declined the offer, despite the intense experience. The interview process felt overwhelming, starting with some tough core ML concepts before diving into the LLM fundamentals. During the technical round, I recognized a tokenization question from a PracHub session I had done just a week before. It felt like a small win in an otherwise challenging interview. Ultimately, the pressure and expectations were high, but I felt it wasn't the right fit for me.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
LLM fundamentals: tokenization design and KL-regularized SFT
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Chennai) in Sep 2019
Interview
Extremely neagative experience as interviewer poses you with scenarios which do/may not exist in your work experience. He was so much interested in what I was unable to do, and I had to literally create a false scenario where I failed. So rather than focusing on everything that I achieved and how I done that, it was more of what you didnt do. Interviewer was also blathering about how he was at amazon for 8 years, basically he was self involved. Waste of time. Stay away from this company and enjoy your time, dont waste on this stupid process.
There are three rounds in total. The process begins with a coding round, followed by the main interview loop, where you will meet the team and discuss technical skills, experience, and fit.
First round is fun, second round, which is also the final round involved 5 sessions, with different focus. For some sessions, not be able to present my story completely, time was tight, and interviewers were rushing.