Education: PhD in Computer Science
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Date of the Offer: Mar 28 2022
Company: Amazon
Title/Level: Applied Scientist | L5
Location: Seattle
Salary: 165000 / year
Relocation/Signing Bonus: 180000 (Yr 1) + 142000 (Yr 2)
Stock bonus: 144 Units (443K on Apr 20 2022)
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Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): 1.44M (4 yr total), 360K / year
Benefits: Relocation + Health/Vision/Dental + PTO
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Interview Process:

1 Phone Interview : Basic NLP + Deep Learning Questions + Behavioral Questions + 1 Easy level Coding Question

Onsite Interview:

Research Seminar
Basic NLP + Deep Learning Questions (Describe transformers, etc).
MOST Questions were behavioral (Tell me about a time ...)
1 System Design Question with Alexa Team (How would you match entities in different Alexa Skills)
1 Coding Question (Implement Byte Pair Encoding -- Seems like their goto question since I found the same on multiple glassdoor posts)