Business Research Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 78% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Business Research Analyst roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 9 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 Business Research Analyst according to 9 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Presentation: 13%
Skills test: 13%
Background check: 7%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Started with two online technical rounds on HackerEarth: ML and python online coding test
and then followed 4 onsite interviews: ML problem solving and Coding, Invent & simplify and Bias for action. these were elimination rounds and then another 2 rounds. Manager round was mostly behavioural questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Python coding, SQL, Machine learning and Behavioural questions.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderābād) in Apr 2026
Interview
Took months to get to the interview stage after multiple hold offs and postponements to get to the first round of the 5-round loop and then ghosted. I gave my assessment in December, screening round in February and first round in April.
What is the difference between supervised and unsupervised learning?
Explain the concept of overfitting and how it can be prevented.
What is a confusion matrix, and how is it used?
How do you handle missing data in a dataset?
What is the bias-variance tradeoff?
Explain the difference between L1 and L2 regularization.
What is cross-validation, and why is it important?
What are precision and recall? How do they relate to each other?
What is a ROC curve, and what does the AUC represent?
How does a decision tree algorithm work?
What are ensemble methods, and why are they used?
What is the difference between bagging and boosting?
Explain the k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm.
How does the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm work?
What is a kernel in SVM, and why is it used?
What are the different types of activation functions in neural networks?
Explain the concept of gradient descent.
What is the vanishing gradient problem, and how can it be addressed?
How do convolutional neural networks (CNNs) work?
What are the key differences between CNNs and RNNs (recurrent neural networks)?
Explain the concept of transfer learning.
What is the role of a loss function in machine learning?
What are hyperparameters, and how do you tune them?
Explain the concept of feature engineering.
How does a random forest algorithm work?
What is the purpose of a validation set in machine learning?
How do you evaluate the performance of a regression model?
What are some common clustering algorithms?
Explain the difference between PCA (Principal Component Analysis) and LDA (Linear Discriminant Analysis).
How does reinforcement learning differ from other types of learning in machine learning?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Sept 2022
Interview
The interview process is neither difficult nor easy. In my opinion, it is average. The interview questions are very good. The questions are based on previous work experiences that you have done through internships and companies.