Data Engineer 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 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2022
Interview
Hiring Manager contacted me thru Linked In and he/she gave me a link to apply for a role.
Initial phone interview - answered couple of SQL questions (average)
Final Round with 4 + 1 hiring manager
1 Round was skip manager for this role. he/she had some audio, video issues initially. Once settled he/she gave me One SQL(average) & couple of LPs
Break for an hour
2nd was Bar raiser, it was sometime in afternoon must be after lunch hour. he/she focused on LP's only and was yawning thru out the interview. It ended in 35mins
3rd was SQL interview, he/she asked 3 questions average to difficult level and it was interesting. Found his knowledge is upto my level, so it was engaging.
4th was Data Architect Interview,he/she gave me a case study to model the database. It was interactive and engaging.
5th was with Hiring Manager on ETL Design, he/she gave me case study to design. It was little difficult after couple of follow-up questions, he/she moved on to LPs. he/she asked similar questions from my Bar raiser.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical BQ
Tell me about when you took on something significant outside of your ae of responsibility
Tell me when you work thru tight deadlines
Tell me a time when your had conflict with your peer
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Recruiter reached out to me for a data engineer position.
The next step was a one hour tech screen.
Tech screen was cloud experience, scenario based data pipeline questions and coding question.
Next step was the full loop split over 2 days.
lot of behavior questions (LP) and coding both sql and python.
Got offer after 4 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Lot of Questions on leadership principles, have more than one example for each principle.
2. 1 round SQL ( windows + subquery ) medium to hard in leetcode.
3. 1 round Python( 3 questions) ( lists, strings, recursion, dictionaries)
4. Data pipeline build ( scenario based)
applied through website, recruiter reached out for screening, didn't pass screening and that was it for the recruiter screening process and the interview in general.applied through website, recruiter reached out for screening, didn't pass screening and that was it for the recruiter screening process and the interview in general.