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      Applied Scientist Interview

      27 Mar 2020
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Berlin
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Berlin) in Mar 2020

      Interview

      Two 1-hour online interviews followed by a virtual full day onsite, all within a month The onsite interview was done online due to COVID. It included a 45min presentation of my research work followed by 5 1-hour individual interviews. All interviews included at least 20-30 mins of behavioral questions, many of which were asked multiple times by different interviewers, so make sure to have at least 2-3 examples for each. In terms of technical/research questions they were based around potential use cases for amazon, without taking much into consideration your personal expertise. In the end I did not get an offer, even though I felt I did well. I was informed through the phone after approximately one week that while I showed great potential in the leadership and behavioral part, I was slightly lacking in the functional (?) part. Unfortunately doing the onsite virtually rather face-to-face, makes it harder to "read" the room and understand if the interviewer is actually satisfied with your answers or not

      Interview questions [7]

      Question 1

      1st online interview with Applied scientist. Discussion was mainly about my research work along with behavioral questions. I was asked to analyse some of the recent research projects I had on my CV
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      Question 2

      2nd online, coding interview with Sr Software Developer. The question was "Find the largest palindrome in a string"
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      Question 3

      1st onsite interview: Technical/Research questions included: YOLO and its derivatives, SVMs and kernels, Metric learning, Segmentation (semantic vs instance), non-dl image matching (i.e SIFT features), clustering methods, supervised vs non-supervised learning etc.
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      Question 4

      2nd onsite interview: Technical/Research questions included: Discussion about employing/improving amazon's image search service (i.e from an instagram fashion post, finding the corresponding product in the amazon catalog) Included potential techniques for large scale image matching, annotation (bboxes, segmentation masks, hierarchical labels etc.), adding new items to the product list, transferring knowledge between similar domains (i.e instagram vs magazine)
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      Question 5

      3rd onsite interview: Only behavioral questions
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      Question 6

      4th onsite interview: Technical question How would you improve amazon's core services using computer vision techniques. The question actually overlapped with the discussion with the 2nd interviewer, so I had to come up with a different novel idea. Coding question For a list of rectangles/subarrays find the average of each one on a 2D Matrix
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      Question 7

      5th onsite interview: Coding question Find the second largest value in a binary tree
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