Applied Scientist Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Applied Scientist Intern roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Applied Scientist Intern according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2025
Interview
Two rounds of interviews with separate groups of people. Both involved primarily behavioral questions, with a bit of time allocated to a coding test. Technical questions in the first round focused on my own research. Technical questions in the second round focused on what the group had been doing.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2024
Interview
Two stages: OA and technical interview. The technical interview asked sth relevant to machine learning and the structure of LLMs. Then I got asked about questions relevant to leadership principles (like how do you collaborate with your co-authors, handling conflicts.etc).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML knowledge, LLM structure, leadership principles
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Jodhpur, Rajasthan) in Feb 2025
Interview
1 DSA Round (BST + Binary Search Variants)
1 ML Round (In depth of the algorithms present on resume, as well as other algorithms and standard ML Practices).
Topics - LR, DT, SVMs, ANNs, CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, LLMs