Applied Scientist Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 95% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Applied Scientist Intern roles take an average of 76 days to get hired, when considering 39 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Applied Scientist Intern according to 39 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 27%
One on one interview: 21%
Phone interview: 19%
Personality test: 8%
Background check: 6%
Presentation: 6%
Group panel interview: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2025
Interview
Two rounds of interviews with separate groups of people. Both involved primarily behavioral questions, with a bit of time allocated to a coding test. Technical questions in the first round focused on my own research. Technical questions in the second round focused on what the group had been doing.
I was asked basic knowledge in deep learning and machine learning. Also had time of explaining my research. discussed how I can apply my research to the current project. Transformer architecture, bias-var tradeoff, use of positional encoding, long-term dependencies.
HackerRank assessment with solid, fair questions. Communication with the recruiting team was clear and professional throughout the process. I was invited to two additional interviews, one focused on research depth and the other on coding skills.
One phone screen on LeetCode-style medium coding question plus behavioral questions. One loop of three back to back interviews including one round of coding, two rounds of research plus behavioral questions.