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.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2014
Interview
Phone Interview after 2-3 days after resume registered in Amazon career website; Phone interview is very technical oriented, most are SQL query and data modeling. Depends on 1st phone interview performance, 2nd or 3rd phone interviews will be scheduled. If 1st phone interview is excellent, on-site interview is scheduled within 1-2 weeks. Technical and behavior questions are for on-site.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Very details to the project you had done, be prepared on the tough one regarding the project details.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2014
Interview
Applied online in mid-March and got an email in about 3 weeks. It took them quite a while to setup a phone interview. A full 1 month after they first contacted me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not very difficult but I messed up a question regarding a complex SQL query. I used a union instead of an intersection.