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Candidate-reported interview insights

Amazon Data Engineer interviews, decoded.

Explore commonly reported questions, interview rounds, difficulty, duration, and candidate experiences for the Data Engineer role at Amazon.

3.6 rating Internet & Web Services

Interview overview

Difficulty

Average

Average rounds

2.7

Average duration

30.6 day average

Difficulty and candidate experience

Interview difficulty

easy8.2%
average64.3%
difficult27.6%

Candidate experience

neutral22.4%
positive68.4%
negative9.2%

Candidate-reported interview process

It was a phone screen, pretty simple setup, I applied online and got an email from the recruiter. Had a 30min recruiter call and then they scheduled a phone screen. Phone screen was video enabled, was asked 3 coding questions, python 1 medium and sql 2 (recursive cte and leetcode hard). They asked about data modeling design and I gave some basic solution. I didnt go to the next round, but it was a learning opportunity.

Asked around five PySpark questions, plus a basic coding question (LC easy-medium). Main focus is on LPs and behavior, need to finish the coding in the time limit while keeping good communication.

Online assessment with HackerRank, 2 round interview one technical and another behaviorial round, offer will be presented once we get through and pass their benchmark. It’s easy-med Leetcode SQL question, window functions, CTEs.

Common Amazon Data Engineer interview questions

A focused selection of the most detailed candidate-submitted questions.

  1. 1

    How have you demonstrated Amazon’s Leadership Principles in your past work?

  2. 2

    How do you perform different types of basic SQL joins?

  3. 3

    When are you available for the interview?

  4. 4

    How do you use SQL window functions?

Interview question formats

Technical34.8%
Behavioral25.1%
Coding24.7%
System Design8.2%
Other7.1%

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Interview information is based on candidate reports and may not represent the current official hiring process of Amazon.