Applied Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% 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 5 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 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
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It was very smooth, even though there were some delays due to the other candidates' interviews management.
Two-step hiring process through video call:
- 1st one was related to behavioural and theoretical questions
- 2nd one was more coding and theory
There was another round actually: it was because I passed all the interviews, however there was no more space for the team I applied for (NLP). So they asked me if I wanted to reach a Manager of another team (ML).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- How to handle difficult situations
- How to handle different opinions between colleagues
- How a CNN works
- How a RNN works
- Did you work with Transformers? What is Attention?
- Summary metrics for NLP
- CODING: Two sum but with multiplication actually
- How a BiLSTM works
- Metrics for regression
BONUS INTERVIEW WITH OTHER TEAM (more friendly)
-Bagging and boosting
-Forecasting example
-Computational difference between XGBoost and Random Forest
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2022
Interview
Stage-2- Resume Review
Stage 3 - Virtual Interviews on Coding (Data structures and Algorithms) and Machine Learning
Based on the online assessment and resume review, shortlisted applicants will be contacted separately for virtual interview Round 1. Candidates performing well in Round 1 will only be invited for subsequent interviews.
If an offer is extended, whether it will be for an internship or full-time opportunity will be decided based on the performance during interviews.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Tokyo) in Jul 2022
Interview
I submitted the application via Amazon's job site. Later the HR contacted me via email and scheduled 1 phone interview. Unfortunately I failed in phone interview so I cannot provide more information.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If Amazon wants to send email to potential customers, how to model this problem? What features to use? Which metrics to evaluate? Which metrics (recall/precision) is more important?
DL:
- Describe the basic ANN.
- What's the benefit of ReLU?