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:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
one round phone screen (coding + ml depth), five rounds on site loop including ML depth, ML width, case interview, coding, bar raiser, with each round of 2-3 LP questions.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Palo Alto, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
It took approximately two months to schedule the initial screening. The scheduling part was terrible, but I found my interviewer professional. An observer was also watching the interview, probably for training purposes. I did okay.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some Machine learning basics, plus a coding question to traverse a binary tree
There are phone screen interviews, as well as virtual onsite interviews. In my case, they made me repeat the phone screen stage because the interviewer "abstained" in making their decision.