Applied Scientist Interview Questions

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Project discussion, why not chosed some specific baselines which were naive, and philosophical questions like why the world is moving away from CNN or VAE or those architectures and coming to transformers like ViT, Catastrophic fogetting happens only due to LR in NN, which is a partial truth, Given PDF and RV, draw some specific number of points from it with a given list of probabilities, ROC-AUC, Evaluation metrics, Clustering algos, classical genAI algos, Dont quote anything mathematically but theoretically
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Applied Scientist II

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Jun 28, 2025

Project discussion, why not chosed some specific baselines which were naive, and philosophical questions like why the world is moving away from CNN or VAE or those architectures and coming to transformers like ViT, Catastrophic fogetting happens only due to LR in NN, which is a partial truth, Given PDF and RV, draw some specific number of points from it with a given list of probabilities, ROC-AUC, Evaluation metrics, Clustering algos, classical genAI algos, Dont quote anything mathematically but theoretically

- Provide a one-hour technical presentation on a topic of your choice, but not completely out of the scope of the role you are interviewing for. - Complete coverage of the soft skills and principles that all Amazon employees are expected to demonstrate: show instances/cases in your career where you displayed those skills. - Technical quizzing on probabilities, statistics, and some Machine Learning algorithms - Coding style interview: use of data structures
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Applied Scientist

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
May 22, 2020

- Provide a one-hour technical presentation on a topic of your choice, but not completely out of the scope of the role you are interviewing for. - Complete coverage of the soft skills and principles that all Amazon employees are expected to demonstrate: show instances/cases in your career where you displayed those skills. - Technical quizzing on probabilities, statistics, and some Machine Learning algorithms - Coding style interview: use of data structures

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