I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2022
Interview
The recruiter reached out through LinkedIn and scheduled the first interview with him.
After being approved in this first step, he sent me an email with instructions for the SQL + 2 leadership principles interview.
The process was online through Amazon Chime and with the camera off.
A lot of behavioral questions to be answered with STAR Method.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First Interview (With the recruiter):
- Ask to pass through my resume.
- How I get requirements, with which frequency, and what I ask for.
- Size of the data I'm used to work.
- Estathistical knowledge I used and scripting language (Python, R)
- How to use lead and lag function and aggregations functions.
- A time when I worked with a business area, who are they, what was the problem, what was the solution, and which was the quantitative result.
- A time when I had to dive deep to discover the root cause of a problem.
Second Interview (SQL + Leadership Principles):
- When I reached a goal, and exceed it.
-When I delivered a project under a tight timeline.
- When I got negative feedback and what I did with it
- Three things that I do to improve my overall effectiveness.
- Amazon wants to flag clients who bought Alexas and Books to send them campaigns to the next Kindle version. What I expected to find in terms of data (which tables and which fields). Then I had to use those tables and create a query to bring the client_id of those clients.
Applied to new grad role
1st Round Technical Screener
2nd Round Amazon Loop: Supposed to be 4 back to back rounds but the first interviewer no-showed. Emailed the coordinator and was notified that loop was shortened to 3 rounds.
Last round was bar raiser, went into very specific details on every question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is your top 3 technical skills? How would you rate your SQL skills out of 5?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Nueva Delhi) in Aug 2022
Interview
There were 3 major rounds - 1. Initial phone screening 2. Amazon loops 3. Additional loop round. These will depend on your level of experience and position for which you are being interviewed.
Initial phone screening had 2 sub rounds - one LP and second technical round.
Amazon loops had 4 rounds - one technical and 3 LPs
Additional loop had 1 technical round.