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. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Sep 2017
Interview
First interviewer cancelled interview 15 mins AFTER the original scheduled time. Pushed to next week, but the job description is gone. HR called to explain saying that I need to get rematch to a different team if I pass the interviews.
Second interviewer asked some basic machine learning questions without going deep into anything. Then ask me a very ambiguous question about how to predict products that can be sold next month. Then coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding: Given a bar plot and imagine you are pouring water from the top, how to qualify how much water can be kept in the bar chart.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2017
Interview
Recruiter gave no information about what to expect during upcoming phone interviews. Technical questions in the second phone interview made it clear they were looking for someone with a different set of experiences and skills.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Lussemburgo) in May 2017
Interview
The first step was to go through their jobs offering site: looots of jobs! Found the right one, you go for the online application. Then the first long wait without any progress update until the first online assessment, then another long wait.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have a table with a billion rows, how would you add a column inserting data from the original source without affecting the user experience?