Technical phone screen, be asked about combinatorial optimization related problems and my project experience. The combinatorial optimization problem are from the textbook but the follow ups can be hard. got rejected the next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Formulate the problem of picking the heaviest book from the knapsack as a combinatorial problem
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2026
Interview
This interview was for the Applied Scientist Position at Amazon. It was a Science breadth/Depth as well as 1 easy LC problem. After that did a full loop interview. 1 Science ML Breadth, 1 Science Depth, 1 Sys Design (Team-specific), 1 coding round and 1 Bar Raiser
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Bias-Variance tradeoffs. Bagging Vs boosting. Modeling details in my project. Basic Statistical Questions. DSA: String compression problem.
1 HR round
4 technical interviews (coding+depth+breadth) of Machine Learning.
1 round to go into depth of my own projects.
1 round on general data science questions + system design (model a pipeline end-to-end for translating one set of multimodal objects to another language)
Two easy Leetcode problems, some ML coding problems and a lot of Leadership Principles talk. Overall average experience. A lot of middle managers not much room to innovate or take risks. Like working for the DMV