I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2026
Interview
Online Assessment followed by two technical interviews of 1 hour each. First was related to my research and second was about ML breadth which included questions about transformers, convolution neural nets, regularization, etc
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HackerRank assessment with solid, fair questions. Communication with the recruiting team was clear and professional throughout the process. I was invited to two additional interviews, one focused on research depth and the other on coding skills.
One phone screen on LeetCode-style medium coding question plus behavioral questions. One loop of three back to back interviews including one round of coding, two rounds of research plus behavioral questions.