Data Science applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Science roles take an average of 3 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
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I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Dec 2019
Interview
Three interviews. The process was fairly easy. The first round was a phone interview. The second round was me technical, took about an hour. Answered questions on optimization and data processing. Overall, it was a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe your pervious experience with your employers
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2020
Interview
The first round was a phone screening. I was asked about my work experience and a coding question on count of frequent words in a stream of text.
The virtual onsite interview had 6 rounds of 1 hour interviews.
Round1: Leadership principles and then a coding session. The question was to get the count of rows based on a criteria.
Round 2: Technical presentation on a project you did in the past
Round3: Leadership questions and questions on data science scenarios. Try to ask as many as questions you can.
Round 4: Leadership questions and basic machine learning concepts like difference between bagging and boosting, What is naive bayes, explain p-value in layman terms, what is a normal distribution.
Round 5: LP questions and very simple sql queries
Round 6: Completely leadership questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is difference between bagging and boosting
What is naive bayes algorithm
Explain p-value
Explain Bayes theorem
Explain bias variance tradeoff
Example of a high bias and high variance models
Initial phone screening with a recruiter.
Few days later, I got another interview request from the recruiter.
Then, I had 2 phone interviews with team member and a project manager.