I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sept 2016
Interview
A phone screen involving some background and a couple coding questions, first talked through and then to be completed and sent in to be reviewed by one of the applied scientists on the team
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to write a function to make a biased coin from a fair coin and vice versa
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.