I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2025
Interview
One applied scientist from Amazon interviewed me. She asked several questions from machine learning model, after that one data structure question involving time complexity questions. Later, I have asked 2 questions to her and she answered it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What are the evaluation metrics used for LLM evaluation?
2. How is LSTM different from Transformer architecture?
3. Why is RAG architecture used instead of fine-tuning LLM models?
4. How is BERT different from GPT model?
5. What will I do in case of imbalanced dataset?
6. How is linear regression different from logistic regression? What types of loss functions are used in each of these scenarios?
7. What is the task of dropout and activation function?
The interviewers asked what you know, not what they know, and they are very knowledgeable. Questions are deep dive into what you have done and some leadership behavorial questions to see if you match their Amazon leadership principal
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
behavorial questions about Amazon leadership principal
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
HM reached out. The first round reviewed my resume and focused on one project in depth. The final round included 5 technical interviews and 1 behavioral interview. The technical portion covered ML knowledge and case studies.