I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Edinburgh, Scotland) in Dec 2021
Interview
I was sent an email to schedule a phone interview after sending an online application. I accepted, provided some time slots and contacted the recruiter to know more about the kind of interview I was going to have. I received an automatic response because recruiter was out of town. Never heard from the recruiter.
The interviewer was nice, but I couldn’t really hear clearly because of their microphone. 60 minutes, half about a research project I’ve been working on, half a question about how to develop a model for an Amazon store feature. I thought I did pretty good, but received a rejection email in less than 24 hours.
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.