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:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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Self Introduction, why amazon and behavioral questions.
The leadership principles are very important. I recommand careful prepartion. Duration about 45 min. Possibility to ask questions about the position. Friendly and professional environment.
I applied through the Amazon job portal, was contacted by a recruiter, provided my schedule availability, and then interviewed by a data scientist. A senior manager joined the interview. The interview took 60 minutes.
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Previous projects related questions, ML and Statistics, some behavioral, and no coding.
How do you account for error propagation in time-series forcasting?
My experience is related to the first phone call. It was a very difficult interview. As soon as the interviewer joined the call, he started asking technical questions straight away without any introductions. The difficulty of the live programming question was out of the world.
Interview questions [1]
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Hard and advanced questions from statistics, machine learning and deep learning.