I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA)
Interview
Very Professional. Before both the phone and on-site interview, I had a call with a technical recruiter who told me exactly what to expect for each interview. There were lots of behavioral questions, talking about previous projects I had done, questions about how various ML algorithms work, and coding questions. None of the questions were too tricky. All the interviewers were very nice. Took less than 24 hours to reply with interview outcome.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What ML algorithms do you know? Follow up questions asked me to describe some of the algorithms I had listed, then went into details (what is the loss function, why is LSTM better than RNN)
Coding Questions: Similar to easy/medium LeetCode questions.
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.