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:
Skills test: 33%
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
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Every answer has to be phrased in terms of the customer. Beyond that, the ds questions were pretty standard. Preparing answers where everything is clearly linked to the amazon leadership principles helps a lot.
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Question 1
How did the last product you worked on help the customer?
Asked questions about research (problems, difficutlies, metrics used)
asked general ML questions (Linear regression, regularization, etc)
Asked questions regarding leadership principles (make sure you have stories)
Simple coding question at the end
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked questions about research (problems, difficutlies, metrics used)
asked general ML questions (Linear regression, regularization, etc)
Asked questions regarding leadership principles (make sure you have stories)
Simple coding question at the end
Phone screen with coding, virtual onsite. Mix of design questions, behavioral and technical breakout of your choice of dl architecture. One interviewers microphone was so faint I struggled to hear them, another had such a heavy accent it was only 10 minutes in that I realized what some of his words were as I slowly acclimated to his heavy heavy accent.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First coding was function to produce weighted probability sampler given a list of weights, second was least common ancestor in binary tree