I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I applied using an employee referral. First there was a telephonic screening round which lasts for around 1 hour. Then there were coding round, 2 AI/ML focused rounds since I applied for data scientist role. I got rejected in the coding round itself.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Major questions were related to my project which was computer vision/DL based.
1. What are the difficulties I faced in my project and how I counteracted it?
2. Explain U-Net and what novel thing it offers?
3. Explain regularization and it's different types?
4. How KL divergence loss is different from cross entropy loss?
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 (Tokio) 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.