Anyone with interview experience for aws data scientist role? Any pointers for phone interview?
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Do you guys know the salary for DS in Amazon ?
Hey How was your interview?
I had a pretty mediocre experience for Applied Scientist II with their process. I didn't get an offer so you might sense some strong bitterness lol. I was initially very excited about the opportunity. Screening: My phone interview coding question (LC medium graph question) was actually much harder than the onsite interview coding question which was like a LC easy. Few discussions about ML. The interviewer didn't know a lot about my domain so she kept it high level. Onsite: The screening coding question was given by an engineer and he said "We have to make sure the Applied Scientist can write basic code etc., so this won't be that hard". I thought this was kind of hilarious as I was worried about getting a LC hard. ML - Theory / System Design mixed up across 4 interviews: Entire experience felt pretty award except for two interviews which felt more solid. During one ML interview the interviewer asked me to type equations into their Chime App (Amazon's version of Zoom). I really wanted to ask if I could make a Google Doc or something lol. I also had to prepare a 40-60 min presentation. It was pretty disappointing because it felt like no one was listening (everyone had camera's off including the HM). In contrast to this, I gave a similar presentation at a few other companies and during those presentations, people were engaged and asked many interesting questions. Also would think the HM would be more involved... Finally the system design questions, felt like it was designing a very specific architecture that the interviewer had in mind. I've interviewed at Google L5 MLE and FB L5 MLE and AWS Applied Scientist II was def worse experience. Sorry for the negativity. I'm sure it could have been just my specific experience or the team I interviewed with. But in contrast to this at FB and Google it felt like the interviewer's were extremely well versed in their domain. The AWS ML interviews felt very different (in a bad way!).
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SQL, basic statistics, and probably some ML. DS at Amazon is anything from advanced Excel, ETL, visualization (Tableau, Quicksight), to ML and modeling.
The phone interview is it just dive straight into tech questions or resume screen again?
Usually one or two behavioral questions and then rest is technical. Probably some SQL for the phone screen