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 online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Telephone, TX) in Feb 2017
Interview
Made contact with HR, several days later had telephone technical interview. They were clearly wanting a Software Engineer instead of a Data Scientist since my interviewer knew very little about Statistics or data science and only asked me CS questions. My interviewer also spent about 10 minutes discussing politics, which made me very uncomfortable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a Python function that displays the first n Fibonacci numbers.
2 phone interviews and 1 onsite interview and the onsite interview includes 5 small interviews with different people. Called out of the blue, asked if I'd be interested in interviewing. Still not entirely sure how they got my name. Had first phone interview the next week, asked no personal questions, all technical in nature. Total of 3 phone interviews and an in-person trip out to Seattle.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Feb 2017
Interview
Onsite interview in the Alexa team's Boston office. Each interview is held by 2 persons: the manager and the less senior person. They are really nice and patient in asking questions. Half of the content is about the Amazon's leadership principle questions, and the other half about basic concepts in stats, data modeling and coding. It was more like a technical conversation than an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when you did not agree with your advisor.