I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Long process around 3 months.
I applied online, a recruiter reached out soon after. The recruiters were friendly but they did'nt clearly explain the interview process. Attended remote interview with a bunch of amazonians every one was very focused on the leadership principal.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) A machine learning take home assignment . It was a prediction problem using simplest method.
2) Phone Interview with ML Scientist - Basic questions in ML
3) Onsite - 5 rounds of interview
Every round focuses on Behavioural questions. Amazon breathes these principals.
1) Presentation - about a project you recently worked on (be prepared to get grilled)
2) Algo and DS - Not what you typically expect. It was more of a design problem
3) ML Application - About a Amazon product design using ML
4) ML breadth - Questions to test on your ML expertise
5) ML coding - Focus is more on functional programming and less on ML.
Phone screen interview
Then onsite interviews: 5 interviews two on coding and three on science and a tech talk
You choose a topic for the presentation
The science interviews are: one on science depth, one on science breath and one on science applications
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Question on optimizers; comparing gradient decent, adam optimizer etc
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Londres, Inglaterra) in Jun 2026
Interview
After applying online, I received an invitation for an one hour online interview. The interview consisted of questions about my previous work, and then a series of questions on deep learning (specifically on LLMs), and finally a LeetCode style coding question (number of islands in a 2D grid).
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.