I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Londres, Inglaterra)
Interview
interview over the phone, this is the first stage (and there are many other stages after following this first step). Interview went smoothly, the interviewer knows what he is talking about and I had a pleasant experience chatting
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
they will ask you behavioural based questions such as "tell of a moment who had to prove to your superiors that the decision you made was the right one" .
Make sure to check amazon's behavioural questions and prepare them before.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2018
Interview
Applied at the company portal and I was contacted by a recruiter, after the initial call- I had a interview with one of the hiring manager, I wasnt selected to the next round as I was asked SQL questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your current role?
How did you prioritize your requirement?
How do you manage difficult stakeholders?
Walk me through the steps of Root cause analysis?
Basic SQL questions on Select, JOINS
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
1. Recruiter Call - wasn't really an interview. Recruiter just outlined the position, made sure this was a right technical fit for the role, and explained the importance of knowing leadership principles and STAR interview technique. I felt that this interview style was a bit insincere, and encourages interviewees to brainwash themselves and their experiences to reflect the leadership principles. They are great principles for any organization to have for sure, but the whole "take your experiences and show leadership principle" process to me felt very insincere. To each their own.
2. Technical Screen - Invite said this would be a live coding session but we didn't code at all. Spent 5 minutes talking about my background. Spent 30-40 minutes technical interview. Spent 5 minutes with a leadership principle question. All hypothetical technical questions. SQL (aggregations, groupby, joins, order by, window funcitons). Tableau (explain specific Tableau features, how would you use Tableau to do a certain type of analysis). Questions were not that difficult, but the interviewer probed deeply. You need to know your stuff.
Job seemed like a grindhouse and I didn't particularly vibe well with the "brainwashing" of leadership principles in the interview process.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Gives a data schema, asks how you would code the solution in SQL. Aggregations tested, joins lightly tested, window function.