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1. Basic machine learning questions including: what are bagging and boosting describe different kinds of decision trees what is AUC curve 2. Behavior questions: just the type of amazon leadership questions one can google out 3. A design question: design a drive (deliver man) recruit system, given a specific time, and a target number of drivers needed, one must hire enough driver before the time. At different time points, the drive's price will vary. Basically just statistics on how to find the least expensive way to recruit drivers at varyed times.
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Research Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 11, 2021

1. Basic machine learning questions including: what are bagging and boosting describe different kinds of decision trees what is AUC curve 2. Behavior questions: just the type of amazon leadership questions one can google out 3. A design question: design a drive (deliver man) recruit system, given a specific time, and a target number of drivers needed, one must hire enough driver before the time. At different time points, the drive's price will vary. Basically just statistics on how to find the least expensive way to recruit drivers at varyed times.

Interview 1 Q1. If you are given a list of numbers 1:n, and if one of the numbers is removed from that list, what is a good algorithm to find that number. Write code in python on an interactive online environment Q2. What if 2 numbers are missing from that list? Interview 2 Q1. Describe my dissertation research in details Q2. Question on mixed effects models Q3. When users are navigating through the amazon website, they are performing several actions. What is the best way to model if their next action would be a purchase? ?
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Research Scientist Summer Intern 2016

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Feb 5, 2016

Interview 1 Q1. If you are given a list of numbers 1:n, and if one of the numbers is removed from that list, what is a good algorithm to find that number. Write code in python on an interactive online environment Q2. What if 2 numbers are missing from that list? Interview 2 Q1. Describe my dissertation research in details Q2. Question on mixed effects models Q3. When users are navigating through the amazon website, they are performing several actions. What is the best way to model if their next action would be a purchase? ?

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