I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2019
Interview
Two phone interviews. First one covered some SQL/Pandas coding. Second one covered machine learning basic questions with a lot of emphasize on my thesis as a PhD student and the experience of my previous internship
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nested query of SQL, class imbalance problem of classification, feature engineering strategies given a ML problem, questions related with my previous internship (matrix decomposition), and my thesis (graph mining)
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.