I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2017
Interview
Not organized at all. Took me a month to schedule one interview. At the end, the recruiter has been changed as she could not answer most of my questions and was not fluent on her work. Thus, overall "cannot be worse" experience!
1st interview: regular interview with a team manager
2nd interview: coding interview (stubborn interviewer. forced me to follow everything as he wanted.)
3rd interview: technical interview (good experience. Asked machine learning, statistics problem, and probability questions.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you have any experience about machine learning other than your research field? What is the probability of blah-blah...? Write a code to switch a k-th element with (N-k)-th element in a linked list of length N.
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.