I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2020
Interview
The interview process was very structured. There were 3 rounds of interview. The first round was HR, the second was coding, and the final was onsite for 7 hours. The presentation itself had two sections. I presented my research work in the first part and in the second part I was asked to read a paper called Deferred Neural Rendering. It took me 2-3 days to prepare the presentation. I think I did decently well in the presentation part. The call dropped a number of times because of issues with Chrome or the internet.
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.