My experience is related to the first phone call. It was a very difficult interview. As soon as the interviewer joined the call, he started asking technical questions straight away without any introductions. The difficulty of the live programming question was out of the world.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Hard and advanced questions from statistics, machine learning and deep learning.
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.