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      Applied Scientist Interview

      9 Jun 2017
      Anonymous employee
      Seattle, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2017

      Interview

      I was contacted by a technical recruiter to go through another round of interviews for the Applied Scientist position after completing interviews for the Software Development Engineer position. The whole process was completed within a month. Since I have already been through a round of interviews for the Software Development Engineer position, I only had two interviews - a phone interview with a researcher (not from the same hiring team) and on-site interviews with three interviewers - hiring manager and two other researchers (not from the same hiring team). All interviews started on-time and lasted 45 minutes. The interviewers were very attentive and engaged during the discussions. After the on-site interview, I was contacted by the technical recruiter about the hiring team's decision within 2 days, and was sent the actual offer within a week. Before accepting the offer, the recruiting team helped to organized a couple of calls with the hiring manager and another person on the team to allow me to ask questions. I found this helpful in making an informed decision.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Since I signed an NDA, I am not able to give much details here. But in general, besides cultural-fit questions based on Amazon's leadership principles, I was asked three types of technical questions - a general workflow optimization problem, a specific problem faced by a researcher at Amazon, and technical questions on my research. For broad problem statements, it helps to start by listing out the possible directions the problem could go and interactively narrow down the requirements into a specific area of interest.
      Answer question
      10

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