Education: MS in CS (from a top-10 US Univ)
Years of Experience: 2 (as a ML Engineer at a fast-growth startup)
Prior Experience: Interned at MSFT, IBM-Research once each.
For fresh grad, any related Internship/coop experience? N/A
For experienced engineer, what's your current and past experience? Mostly doing some high-profile ML projects at work.
Date of the Offer: 03/2021
Company: Amazon
Title/Level: Machine Learning Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Base Salary: 100,000 (first year), 292,000 (year 1), 280,000 (years 3, 4)
Benefits: Bananas :P Standard AMZN benefits
Other details:
My onsite went extremely well and the HM wanted to "get me at any cost". I didn't have to negotiate much but I did have a competing offer from MSFT. Probably, I could have negotiated upwards of 300k but felt tired due to weekend lmao
Will post my onsite experience soon but it involved a few ML system design questions and a few LC mediums. More than half of my interviews were them grilling me on Amazon Leadership Principles (like I had two 1-hr interviews full of LPs lol) This is super-important if anyone is wondering.
My LC stats: 200 mediums, 200 hards. But this didn't affect much because there were only 2-3 simple LC-mediums in my interview. I solved them in like <7 mins each.