The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2020
Interview
Applied Scientist Intern
One informal phone screen about research. Two phone interviews about research and behavior questions. Coding exercises are focus on NLP model and evaluation metrics. Interviewers are super helpful and encouraging, Really nice interview experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
BQ: What did you do when you disagreed with other's ideas?
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.