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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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2019
Interview
I applied online. Then, just a phone interview talking about my research. Not many technical questions. There was only one reviewer. Got the results several weeks later. The whole process is relatively fast.
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2019
Interview
Two phone interviews. First one covered some SQL/Pandas coding. Second one covered machine learning basic questions with a lot of emphasize on my thesis as a PhD student and the experience of my previous internship
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nested query of SQL, class imbalance problem of classification, feature engineering strategies given a ML problem, questions related with my previous internship (matrix decomposition), and my thesis (graph mining)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2019
Interview
Got approached by a recruiter and was scheduled for a phone screening with their team. We spent 45 minutes talking about my research and 15 minutes to solve a coding problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the length of largest palindrome in a string.