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Machine Learning Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2021
Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview was an initial phone screen conducted on Amazon Chime (basically a chatroom, with no video or screenshare) and LiveCode.

  • 15 minutes of behavioral questions
  • 15 minutes of machine learning fundamentals
  • Approximately 25 minutes for a coding question
  • 5 minutes at the end for the candidate to ask questions

Questions

Behavioral questions were heavily oriented towards Amazon's leadership qualities:

  • Name a time you were innovative.
  • Name a time you delivered a simple solution to a complex problem.

Follow-up questions included how to quantify the level of success in projects brought up.

Machine learning fundamentals:

  • How to deal with a troublesome dataset (interpretation open-ended, so think data cleaning, etc.).
  • How to deal with misrepresentative training data (imbalanced dataset, overfitting, explain how L1/L2 regularization works at an optimization level).
  • How to deal with a large dataset where only a few examples are labeled (semi-supervised learning).

The coding question was: https://leetcode.com/problems/find-original-array-from-doubled-array/

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 14 interview experiences for the Amazon Machine Learning Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

14%
Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Machine Learning Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive71%
Neutral14%
Negative14%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Machine Learning Engineer interview process in United States.

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