Hi everyone. I have an onsite for this position in a couple weeks, and I was hoping someone could give me some guidance about what to expect, in particular with respect to specific types of machine learning topics and coding. I am studying a wide range of things (including plenty of leetcode) and have tried to get some concrete information out of the recruiter, but have received almost zero useful information. Basically, I'm trying to use my time efficiently and I don't think I really am at the moment. Separately, I am curious about how high the bar is, what I could expect in terms of offer TC, and how much the research presentation interview round matters in the offer decision. Basically anything that could shed light on what has turned out to be a pretty opaque interview process would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! #amazon #alexaai #researchscientist
Research scientists do not have a coding requirement. If you will have coding loop it will decide if you get AS or RS. Keep leetcode to minimum, for all levels coding bar is L4 ish.
Really?! Woah. Ok. Well, that's news to me.
Coding round could have scientific questions on probability, etc.
For other loops, it will be about your prior work if you have published papers and some open ended use case scenario, theoretical loop etc.
Thanks for all the helpful information. Unrelated, but would you consider RS a "good" job? Like, do they get to do interesting work? Is the TC good relative to the skills required?
Yeah, i think RS and AS are much better off at Amazon than SDEs. Probably why you won't find many scientists here on blind. Also, yes,you will get to do interesting work. If they offer you AS, same story. If they offer a DS role, cant say.
That's great to hear. Thanks again for your responses. Any advice on specific material to study?
As ridiculous as it sounds, everything in your domain of expertise. Whether its recommender systems, nlp, vision, forecasting, ai ..whatever. they will not deep dive on what is not your expertise but they can ask few questions in of the loops
Afaik the inteviewer will try to ask you questions at the intersection of what they know and what you know. They will ask you about your past projects and probe in deeper wherever they can.
just interviewed for this role- about half the qs were about leadership principles
Half the questions were leadership principles.... okay. This makes no sense to me whatsoever but good to know. Overall, was the whole thing difficult?
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How many yoe? It's very unusual for ms folks to interview for research scientist roles