Data vs Applied vs Research Scientist @Amazon
What's the difference between these three roles?
You have arranged them in increasing order of scientific depth.
How about the compensation?
To be a research scientist/applied scientist you need a phd (exceptions exist though).Data scientists are folks with just an undergrad/grad degree usually .Research and applied scientists also get paid way more .A lot of data scientists work in the same teams as research and applied scientists
Waking this thread up! I’m interviewing for an L6 DS role now. Loop next week. I expressed interest in AS. Recruiter response was I can get you an interview for L4. I’ll definitely take that interview, sounds more rewarding long run
How did you do in AS interview?
I think Applied is paid the most..heard that they have to pass a research scientist +SDE bar!!!
Is that true? Can anyone verify, latter part especially
Yes, that's true.
Data Scientist - good with databases/sql, good at writing scripts to clean data, good at statistics Research Scientist - often PhD in Machine Learning, Statistics, or equivalent. Applied Scientist - has many attributes as Research Scientist, but also an expert in actually implementing solutions at scale and has many attributes of Software Development Engineer.
I have heard same
There is no data scientist job family at amazon.
I know several...
Also business job titles are not job codes or job families. There are Data Scientists labeled roles that are RS or AS. The ones to avoid out for are the finance/business analyst/BI roles that are labeled Data Scientist. Ask what the job code is.
I'm research scientist. It's true applied scientist is the slightly higher role and requires passing a coding bar. It's also true some people have the data scientist title, but it's not a real job family. They are likely business intelligence engineers or research scientists. So ranking salary bands (from what I understand) is BIE, RS, AS, but I don't think they're substantially different.
Hi! I have my on-site interviews coming up for an applied scientist position at Amazon and I was wondering if someone could please shed some light on the process. Specifically if you could help me out with how many rounds/focus of each round information so that I can better prepare for the interview then I would really appreciate it as I haven't been able to find anything online. FYI I just graduated from my Master's if that helps so it's a graduate research role. (L4)
Do you mind sharing interview insights?
@kai59 what was interview like
I am also struggling to find the answer