2 interviews in total. 1 ML round and 1 coding round. The interviews were supposed to be spread across 5 days but due to scheduling issues (interviewer not being available), they actually took 15 days to be scheduled. Results were also delayed due to the holiday season.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
ML round
- asked questions about overfitting, model design, precision, recall, F1 scores
Coding round
- design algorithm to implement byte pair encoding
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.