I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Édimbourg, Écosse) in May 2021
Interview
First homework: regression on house pricing on uk house sales dataset. Second interview: describe a project you worked on w.r.t. ML and related questions. ML basics questions. Coding challenge and behavioural interview as last.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe Logistic Regression, how it works in a specific use case described (vategorical features encoding, dimensionality reduction, feature selection). Optimization of the model: minimize - log likelihood (cross entropy), how it works (gd).
Applied for Amazon AGI. After first round, it will go into full round of multiple interviews. Lots of modern LLM training technic questions. There are still some behavioral questions, but less than general Amazon roles.
Interviewed with 1 phone screen, 1 coding, 2 ml design and 2 lp rounds. Most questions were non-leetcode questions more related to day to day ml implementations. The questions were very practical.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Tokyo) in Apr 2026
Interview
The interview for the Applied Scientist position primarily focused on three core components: technical questions regarding machine learning, a live coding assessment, and a detailed review of my professional experience.