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.
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Cambridge, East of England, England) in Mar 2016
Interview
It was a first-round phone interview. I applied the job online and waited for about 2 weeks. A recruiter arranged the by giving me a table to fill my free time slots in the next 3 weeks and arranged my interview by the nearest time slot, which indicates that if you want more time to prepare you can simply say you are not free in the first one or two weeks.
There was no general questions in the interview. The interviewer directly asked what I'm studying and relevant questions about speech technology, which are listed below.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) how ASR works in general and related project details
2) how speech synthesis works
3) general ML questions like generative v.s. discriminative
4) good projects you remember in details
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2015
Interview
Awful interview. The person interview did not speak English very well. I do not know how he will communicate with me at the job because he was apparently the team leader.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Which machine learning algorithms/techniques are you familiar with?
What is k-mean?
Have you dealt with time series data?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
2 phone interviews followed by 4-5 online interviews
It was clear from the interview that this is not a real Data Scientist job. It is business analyst job disguised as data scientist since that title is better for marketing to gullible candidates.
Interviewers were from a mediocre background/MBAs from unheard-of business schools. Same with "Data Scientist" peers who were apparently hired from Indian BPO/IT companies.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL merges joins, how will you apply machine learning to a business case, explain the algorithm and why you chose it, how have you applied amazon's leadership principles to real life scenarios
Compensation offered was ridiculously lower than what a decent company would offer for DS profiles. Interviewing was a waste of time. Needless to say I declined the offer.