Applied Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Applied Scientist roles take an average of 21 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Applied Scientist according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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A codesignal assessment and a chat. The first was about regressions and python pands and chat about ML and my experience. Lots of specific questions on this. I talked about a research project of mine and how I used causal ML methods.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Nov 2024
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1. Short "tell me about yourself".
2. 25 minutes about a specific project I did that deals with AI that I did previously (I chose what project to talk about).
3. 25 minutes of technical talk about a general CV problem and how I would solve it.
4. 5 minutes of "HR" questions - give me an example of ...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give me an example of a novel feature you inserted into a project.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
The interview process was very elaborate with some of the interviews serving very little utility. Some of the interviewers were too hasty in concluding that I don't know the answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Dynamic programming based programming questions. Questions about the LLM architecture, various normalization, regularization, etc methods.