Research Scientist applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Research Scientist roles take an average of 31 days to get hired, when considering 96 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Research Scientist according to 96 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 21%
Skills test: 14%
Presentation: 8%
Background check: 6%
Group panel interview: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Personality test: 3%
Drug test: 2%
Other: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2021
Interview
First I have a 1 hour presentation about 1 project (apply research to product),
then there are 5 rounds of interviews,
two rounds of behavior questions,
one round of design questions,
two rounds of technique questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Basic machine learning questions including:
what are bagging and boosting
describe different kinds of decision trees
what is AUC curve
2. Behavior questions:
just the type of amazon leadership questions one can google out
3. A design question:
design a drive (deliver man) recruit system, given a specific time, and a target number of drivers needed, one must hire enough driver before the time. At different time points, the drive's price will vary. Basically just statistics on how to find the least expensive way to recruit drivers at varyed times.
I had a zoom call with the hiring manager. I was asked technical questions during the interview, such as "How do you compute the conditional median of a set of data points?"
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If u ~ Uniform(0, 1), what is the distribution of -log(u)? Solution: Expontial(1).
Five interviews, all had behavioral components, three coding questions, one system design question. The behavioral questions were of the form "Tell me about a time when..." and were meant to reflect Amazon's Leadership Principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you were unhappy with the status quo
Pretty fast and well-organized interview process. Scheduling was easy, communication of different interview expectations was clear, and feedback came quickly after each stage, which made the overall experience quite smooth.