Background:\n4 years of Industry experience in Hardware Design; done some software and ML in my current job...\nPhD from top 20 university (not CS)\n\nLeetcode:\n\neasy/medium/hard\n471/952/381\n\nAmazon (reject):\nContacted by recruiter for Applied Scientist Position; it had 1 phone interview, coding and ML basics, coding qq was:\n\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/find-median-from-data-stream/\n\nI coded it up with a sorted list; got the onsite\n\nOnsite: 3 ML rounds, 1 coding, 1 behavioral; coding:\n\nhttps://leetcode.com/problems/reconstruct-itinerary/\n\nThough it says medium, to me it was hard, I coded to some extend; if there were no loops my code worked.\n\nThey came back to me with the comment that my ML knowledge was not enough; thus a rejection.\n\nMicrosoft (offer):\n\nInterviewed with 2 different groups for ML software engineer; each of them had 4 rounds, one was the famous coin exchange problem, the other one was something like course schedule 1 or 2, the rest, I dont remember the rest of the coding qqs; some of them was also ML knowledge; computer architecture, etc...\n\nOne was for Senior Software Engineer and one for Software Engineer 2; I got the latter. I\'d aimed for a FAANG but still very good given that my title does not say Software at my current position. I have accepted the Microsoft offer.\n\n

Background:\n4 years of Industry experience in Hardware Design; done some software and ML in my current job...\nPhD from top 20 university (not CS)\n\nLeetcode: