I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Nov 2024
Interview
Consisted of 5 rounds after recruiter screen, which is very typical process for amazon. Each one looks for specific alignment :
2 technical rounds
1 system design round
1 behavioural round
1 leetcode
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical rounds were on ML, and previous project experience. It involved basics of transformer, and understanding of each function.
‘If you have a task where order of words/ tokens didn’t matter, how would you train for it?’
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.