Data Engineer I applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2017
Interview
2 phone screens and then the onsite interview. Phone screens are based on SQL and data modelling. Onsite interviews are based on SQL, ETL, Data modelling and behavioral questions. Overall, the experience was good except one of the onsite interviewers.
Total 5 onsite interviews. 4 of them were very nice. Good people to interact with.
1 of them was extremely rude, highly unprofessional in the whole interview. He kept pressurizing me and at each step behaved like he was being forced to take this interview. He once even said, "This is a very bad habit (of yours). You are wasting my time". He was literally yelling at me. I felt like walking out of the interview, but I kept calm.
This was the worst interview I have ever appeared for and sadly it came from Amazon. If Amazon really thinks about the 'candidate experience', I would strongly suggest not to include this extremely unprofessional man on interview panels so that at least future candidates do not suffer the way I did.
Hence even when other interviewers were very nice, this one interview made the experience terrible. I later found that this rude guy worked in the same team I was interviewing for. So declining the offer was a no-brainer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leadership principles related questions. Can't mention the exact questions since I signed the NDA.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Reston, VA)
Interview
Applied Online. The recruiter called first. This was then followed by a technical phone Interview (Most of the questions were related to SQL basics and data modeling). This was then followed by an On-Site Interview (5 Interviews).
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2017
Interview
First, the hiring manager contacted me on LinkedIn. After which I was asked for my resume and then HR setup the technical phone screening. Interviewer showed up about 10 mins late and took about 1 hour for the entire process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Usual stuff - tell me about your work experience, current project etc.
Then proceeded to their online SQL coding site. Given sample tables and asked various questions involving Outer Joins & Cross Joins, Sub Queries, Query to fill missing data etc