I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Dec 2020
Interview
The first round of interview is resume check. Then the recruiter reached out and scheduled two interviews, one-hour for each. After that, in about a week, a decision was made.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write down the pseudo-code of Kmeans
Detailed questions of random forest methods
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.