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%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Group panel interview: 5%
Other: 3%
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I applied through other source. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New Delhi) in Nov 2023
Interview
Part of Amazon ML Summer School. Appeared for an online assessment after it and cleared it. Had a coding round (DSA) after it and ML round after that. Questions were average and the interviewers were extremely friendly and helpful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Maximum sum in nodes of tree, maximum length of valid parentheses substring
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.