Data Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Scientist roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 10 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a Data Scientist according to 10 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Skills test: 24%
Background check: 12%
One on one interview: 12%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Drug test: 6%
Personality test: 6%
Presentation: 6%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Dallas, TX)
Interview
I applied via referral and received an email from HR informing me that the HM went through my resume and would like me to take an OA.
Step 1: OA - HackerRank - 19 MCQ, 4 SQL [medium-difficult level], Behavioural questions to assess your fit based on amazon's leadership policies - probably 25 questions. I cleared this!
Step 2: 60 min call with a technical team member. I failed after this.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Difference between rank and dense rank in SQL, How do you ensure data privacy, which ML to choose based on speed/efficiency..
4 rounds 1 coding 1 ds 1 domain knowledge 1 ml rounds, heavy on behaviour round make sure to study ds fundamentals. interviewers were cool and curious about your thought process
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Tel Aviv-Yafo)
Interview
They share a prep document on how to best prepare for interviews. The technical test was live with document share which I found much more pleasant than very long home technical tests.
test on cloud then tech interview about machine learning questions revolve around technical terms and understanding tester was very nice and did not pressured me on stuff i didnt know