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Amazon Research Scientist Interview Questions

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System DesignStart here. 6 questions · ~57 min
Compare Generative and Discriminative ModelingHard

Compare generative and discriminative modeling approaches, including objectives, system implications, evaluation, and deployment tradeoffs.

inference latencyml inferencearchitecture patternsAmazon
Voice-Activated ML FeatureHard

Design an end-to-end Alexa ML system that resolves voice requests such as listening to Cyndi Wang.

latencyFeature Driftml inferenceAmazon
Real-Time Personalization at Amazon ScaleHard
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Design Amazon's real-time personalization engine across retrieval, ranking, serving, evaluation, and failure handling at very large scale.

ML Rankingsystem designinference latencyAmazon
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Coding3 questions · ~28 min
Working With Numeric Data in TasksMedium
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Use a sliding window to find the shortest contiguous subarray whose sum reaches a target.

ArraysArray Manipulationdata handlingAmazon
Constrained Shortest Path TraversalHard
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Use breadth-first search to return a shortest path that avoids blocked nodes and visits checkpoints in order.

shortest pathbfsData StructuresAmazon
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Machine Learning7 questions · ~66 min
Diagnosing and Mitigating OverfittingHard
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Diagnose high-dimensional model overfitting with validation curves, regularization, feature control, and leakage-aware evaluation.

Cross-ValidationRegularizationModel EvaluationAmazon
ML Project Architecture ChoicesHard
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Explain a machine learning project from your resume, including architecture, model selection, evaluation, and production tradeoffs.

model selectionmodel choiceModel EvaluationAmazon
Evaluating LLMs in ProductionHard
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Design a production evaluation framework for generative models using quality, safety, reliability, cost, and drift metrics.

Deep Learningdata driftModel EvaluationAmazon
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Behavioral & Leadership9 questions · ~85 min
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