I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in May 2025
Interview
The next round was a technical phone interview. The interviewer was a senior BIE and focused primarily on assessing my SQL and data analysis skills. The questions included:
SQL: Write a query to find the second highest salary in a table of employee data.
Data Analysis: Explain how you would go about analyzing a dataset of sales transactions to find trends, anomalies, and correlations.
Business Problem Solving: How would you approach solving a problem where the business needs to understand customer retention and lifetime value using available data?
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Question 1
This was a deep dive into SQL and data manipulation. I was given a dataset and had to write queries to answer specific business questions. There were also questions on data modeling and database design.
The interview process was smooth and conversational. The interviewer was calmly asking questions about my previous work experiences and listened patiently. He even gave me ample time to frame my answers.
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Question 1
1. Tell me about your previous work experience.
2. Asked few SQL questions
few rounds of interviews ranging between technical and conversational. Mostly in the form of " tell a story of time where ..." to show how you relate to amazon LPs
The first interview is a technical phone interview that assesses your skills in SQL and Python, specifically data analysis with python. The interviewer pastes the description of an SQL problem on the code editor and asks you to write your answer while describing your thought process. They give you hints when you're stuck.
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Question 1
Could you tell me the steps involved in the data analysis process?
