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:
Skills test: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Sunnyvale, CA) in Mar 2022
Interview
There were two technical interviews. The first one was pure machine learning, from basics until a case study. The second interview had first a medium leet question, then research discussion.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML/DL concepts, batch normalization, how does it work? Supervised/unsupervised learning, regularization, talked through a case study, how to solve such a case, what are the challenges, available tools and methods to solve the problem.
I was asked basic knowledge in deep learning and machine learning. Also had time of explaining my research. discussed how I can apply my research to the current project. Transformer architecture, bias-var tradeoff, use of positional encoding, long-term dependencies.
HackerRank assessment with solid, fair questions. Communication with the recruiting team was clear and professional throughout the process. I was invited to two additional interviews, one focused on research depth and the other on coding skills.
One phone screen on LeetCode-style medium coding question plus behavioral questions. One loop of three back to back interviews including one round of coding, two rounds of research plus behavioral questions.