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Amazon Development Center U.S. Applied Scientist Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Amazon Development Center U.S. Applied Scientist interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated daily.

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CodingStart here. 10 questions · ~97 min
Chamfer Distance Between Point SetsMedium
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Compute the symmetric Chamfer distance between two 2D point sets using nearest-neighbor searches.

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Count Islands in Messenger GridEasy
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Use DFS or BFS on a 2D matrix to count connected components of land cells.

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Machine Learning9 questions · ~87 min
Feature Selection ApproachHard
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Explain a leakage-safe feature selection process using validation, regularization, importance methods, and model performance.

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Handle Imbalanced Classification DataMedium
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Build a classifier for a highly imbalanced dataset and choose metrics, sampling, and thresholds that fit the minority class.

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System Design7 questions · ~68 min
Design a Travel Recommendation PipelineHard
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Design an end-to-end travel recommendation system with retrieval, ranking, feature pipelines, and online feedback loops.

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Model Evaluation4 questions · ~39 min
Evaluate Models in ProductionHard
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How to evaluate a production model using calibration, thresholds, and confusion matrix tradeoffs.

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Explain Core Classification MetricsEasy
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Explain precision, recall, F1-score, and ROC-AUC for a classification model.

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Behavioral & Leadership11 questions · ~107 min
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More topics2 questions · ~19 min
How SAM WorksMedium
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Tests understanding of modern segmentation model architectures and their inference flow.

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