I applied through the Amazon job portal, was contacted by a recruiter, provided my schedule availability, and then interviewed by a data scientist. A senior manager joined the interview. The interview took 60 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Previous projects related questions, ML and Statistics, some behavioral, and no coding.
How do you account for error propagation in time-series forcasting?
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.