Data Scientist 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 Scientist 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 applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2019
Interview
Took a really long time between applying and hearing from them, but once the process started it went really quickly. I had a technical phone screen, then was flown out for a round of on-site interviews in Seattle. It was a very long day, starting with me giving an hour long technical presentation, followed by two hour long interviews, lunch, then another four hour long interviews. They are very big on their behavioral questions. As long as you brainstorm 5 or so talking points, you'll be able to whip those out as examples and do fine. The recruiter I was working with was kind of crazy, but all the Amazon employees I met were really nice and were people I could see myself working with. I ended up deciding not to move out to Seattle yet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the phone screen: How would you compare the results of two different search algorithms? How to incorporate the rankings of the results?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Two phone interviews, followed by a 6-hours onsite interview at Seattle campus with 6 people.
Not a great experience. some folks were too intense.
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Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain bagging versus boosting + write a code for different types of search, which binary search algorithm is the most efficient
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hr contacted, 2 phone interviews, technical questions and sql questions. overall good but they fill the positions very fast, so need to interview fast as well.
hr is not very responsive sometimes, but they want to help you find a good fit.