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Re: Amazon data science interview questions

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Post by jldugger »

rothbardrand wrote: post #7

It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…

> Don't chase big money or big names. The two almost never go together, anyway.

Do you have evidence on that? Virtually all data I've seen from salary sharing threads, and all compensation discussions I've had with startups suggests the contrary.

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Post by RandomInteger4 »

hackernewsacct wrote: post #4

If you obtained a degree in Computer Science and specialized in Machine Learning are you suppose to be able to answer these questions? What job specialization is this aimed for? Almost strikes me more as a statistical based interview.

Statistics is used heavily in machine learning.

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Post by koksik202 »

rothbardrand wrote: post #7

It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…

I love it there :) go big or go home

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Post by ju-st »

hackernewsacct wrote: post #4

If you obtained a degree in Computer Science and specialized in Machine Learning are you suppose to be able to answer these questions? What job specialization is this aimed for? Almost strikes me more as a statistical based interview.

I have the impression that at big universities maths is always the #1 topic in CS/ML. So its no surprise their graduates ask the same riddles as their profs.

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Post by cropsieboss »

hackernewsacct wrote: post #4

If you obtained a degree in Computer Science and specialized in Machine Learning are you suppose to be able to answer these questions? What job specialization is this aimed for? Almost strikes me more as a statistical based interview.

Questions look answerable for someone taking 2 courses in machine learning. One being the introduction.

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Post by alextheparrot »

bousaid wrote: post #8
rothbardrand wrote: post #7

It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…

Let me ask you this, have you worked at any of those large companies?

They clearly said they worked at Amazon.

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Post by jabits »

rothbardrand wrote: post #7

It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…

I disagree. I am tech lead at a small company, and when we look for help, permanent (rare) or contractor (usually), big software company experience is a definite plus. At least they have been vetted to some level by others first, and have probably had some decent exposure to current methodologies and practices. I really dislike looking for new help, and this experience provides a valuable data point.

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Post by jghn »

rothbardrand wrote: post #7

It appears that the current generation of "hackers" seems very keen to work for a big name company-- Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook. As someone who has worked for many startups and several of the above named companies, please let me give you a bit of advice: - A big company on your resume has no outside value to your prospects. Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" fr…

It varies. At my company people seem to see Google on a resume as a positive indicator but I don't hear the same thing for other big name companies.
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