Amazon

Data Engineer Interview Experience

December 1, 2024

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process was good, well-structured, and absolutely within the time frame. The interviewer asked me about:

SCD Type 2 and if I have ever implemented it.
Data modeling concepts: How would I design a streaming data model as well as a batch data model?
Warehousing concepts: basic warehouse concepts and my personal experience with one.

Two SQL questions (1. Employee time in and time out, and 2. Top 10 sellers).

One Python question (anagram).

Questions

Behavioral:

Have you ever been overburdened with simultaneous projects? How did you handle it?
When was the time that you not only delivered a project but went above and beyond to achieve it?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 98 interview experiences for the Amazon Data Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

27%

Pass Rate

Amazon's interview process for their Data Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive60%

Neutral28%

Negative12%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Amazon's Data Engineer interview process in United States.

Amazon Work Experiences

Great culture and pay

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

August 28, 2024

Pros: Great culture and pay range

Cons: Work-life balance is not great.

Great culture and pay

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

August 28, 2024

Pros: Great culture and pay range

Cons: Work-life balance is not great.

Challenging but rewarding for long-time employees

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

August 26, 2024

Pros: Easy to move between teams. Don't really need to switch companies, as each org acts as an individual company with specific goals. Keeps you challenged and stimulated in work life.

Cons: Overworked. Tighter deadlines. A bad manager can have a big impact on your career at Amazon, and there are several incapable managers who don't have the relevant skills to strategize and create impact with their team.

Challenging but rewarding for long-time employees

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

August 26, 2024

Pros: Easy to move between teams. Don't really need to switch companies, as each org acts as an individual company with specific goals. Keeps you challenged and stimulated in work life.

Cons: Overworked. Tighter deadlines. A bad manager can have a big impact on your career at Amazon, and there are several incapable managers who don't have the relevant skills to strategize and create impact with their team.

Good Balance, Lacking Raises

Data Engineer • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Work-life balance in the company

Cons: No hike, also no good hike.

Good Balance, Lacking Raises

Data Engineer • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Work-life balance in the company

Cons: No hike, also no good hike.

Great culture and pay

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

August 28, 2024

Pros: Great culture and pay range

Cons: Work-life balance is not great.

5.0
Great culture and pay
Data Engineer • Current Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
August 28, 2024
Pros: Great culture and pay range
Cons: Work-life balance is not great.

Challenging but rewarding for long-time employees

Data Engineer • Current Employee

Seattle, Washington, United States

August 26, 2024

Pros: Easy to move between teams. Don't really need to switch companies, as each org acts as an individual company with specific goals. Keeps you challenged and stimulated in work life.

Cons: Overworked. Tighter deadlines. A bad manager can have a big impact on your career at Amazon, and there are several incapable managers who don't have the relevant skills to strategize and create impact with their team.

3.0
Challenging but rewarding for long-time employees
Data Engineer • Current Employee
Seattle, Washington, United States
August 26, 2024
Pros: Easy to move between teams. Don't really need to switch companies, as each org acts as an individual company with specific goals. Keeps you challenged and stimulated in work life.
Cons: Overworked. Tighter deadlines. A bad manager can have a big impact on your career at Amazon, and there are several incapable managers who don't have the relevant skills to strategize and create impact with their team.

Good Balance, Lacking Raises

Data Engineer • Former Employee

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Pros: Work-life balance in the company

Cons: No hike, also no good hike.

4.0
Good Balance, Lacking Raises
Data Engineer • Former Employee
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
April 21, 2021
Pros: Work-life balance in the company
Cons: No hike, also no good hike.

Amazon Interview Questions

Two Sum

Find two numbers in a given array that add up to a specific target value, and return their indices. Essentially, you need to efficiently locate the pair that satisfies the sum requirement.

Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

You're given daily stock prices. Find the maximum profit you can make by buying and selling the stock once. You must buy before you sell.

ArraysDynamic Programming

Reorganize String

Rearrange the characters in a given string such that no two adjacent characters are the same. If such an arrangement is possible, return it; otherwise, return an empty string.

StringsGreedy AlgorithmsArrays

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