I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2022
Interview
My interview process include: 1 phone interview (ML+coding+BQ), Virtual onsite which includes 1 presentation, 5 rounds of interviews (ML + coding + BQ); Behavioral questions based on leadership principals are very important, basically every interview session has BQ questions;
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML questions cover topics such as data imbalance, collinearity, feature selection, linear regression, logistic regression, L1/L2 norm regularization;
ML application question -- how would you design a recommendation system that recommend books to users;
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.