I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2017
Interview
It took 4 weeks from getting phone screen invitation to getting the offer package.
The entire process was very efficient and profession except for the last recruiter who was responsible for informing me the final dicision.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Some SQL join queries
2. Very basic Python coding
3. Data warehousing concepts
4. Behavior questions
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in May 2017
Interview
I first had two rounds phone screen with Alexa team in Boston which went great. So I was invited to have an onsite interview with them. They arranged an one month later onsite interiew which I think was a little bit too late but out of politeness, I didn't push them. about one week before the onstie interview I was told the position was filled . Obviously, I was used as a back up.
So the HR offered me another postion "analytics engineer" saying that they need one more round interview and if it goes well I can have my onsite interview.
After the 3rd round phone screen ( I think i did pretty well, just behaviour questions ), there was no feedback so I wrote an email to push and the feedback was they need THE 4th round interview.
I feel that I was used as a back up again and the process was too long for me to handle so I didn't follow up with them. Neither did they contact me anymore about THE 4th round interview. I hope they can work more professionally.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions are easy:
basic SQL questions:
1. build schema for movie, cast, actors.
2. basic SQL questions like check if peter is in the actors list, find those actors who have worked with peter
3. confidence intervals...(they work in NLP ,so term counts are important)
Behavior quesions:
1. what's the biggest achievement
2. your past experience
3. leadership principles
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Applied via employee referral. I was contacted promptly and interviewed within a week. The first interview lasted 45 minutes and included a resume walkthrough, a case study, and brief technical assessment conducted over Collabedit. The interview went over time (unsurprisingly).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Typical experience/behavioral questions and some Amazon-context SQL questions