I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2022
Interview
Screener interview. Recruiter contacted me to discuss a position via LinkedIn. Scheduled interview, which takes place on Amazon Chime (a teleconferencing app). Chime was terrible and there was so much feedback of my own voice on the interviewer's end it was hard to focus on the questions she asked. Additionally, I was being recruited for a position that required a master's degree, even though I did not have one. To suggest that not having a master's degree is a disqualifying attribute (and preferable over 10+ years of industry experience building data science and ML products) seems a bit ridiculous. At the end of discussion, interviewer suggested that I apply to a business analyst position, which I declined to do (and was kind of insulting).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you walk me through the process of building a machine learning model?
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.