Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 187 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Data Engineer according to 187 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 34%
One on one interview: 19%
Skills test: 15%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 7%
Personality test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
Background check: 3%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2017
Interview
Interview started with job description and duties to perform in the team if selected
Interviewer then questions on current work roles & responsibilities
Questions on Databases
Questions on Datawarehouse concepts
Questions on Performance Tuning
After that asked SQL technical questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. What difference have you made in current team apart from regular work ?
2. What are the steps you follow to rebuild a table in database ?
3. How did you do performance tuning ?
4. How do you find the skewness of data in table ?
5. Difference between RDBMS and Dimensional Modeling
SQL
1) purchase
customer_id product_id quantity purchase_date
1 111 1 01/01/2017
1 111 2 01/02/2107
1 222 2 01/02/2017
2 111 3 01/04/2017
2 222 1 01/03/2017
3 222 1 01/05/2017
3 222 1 01/06/2017
3 111 1 01/06/2017
3 111 1 01/04/2017
Q: How many customers bought each product how many times during the week?
Product_Id Number_of Customers Number_of_Times
111 2 2
111 1 1
222 2 1
222 1 2
2) daily_usage
account_id usage_amount usage_date
1 10 1
1 20 2
1 15 3
1 30 4
Q.
a) How do you print the usage_amount of previous/consecutive rows
b) Without using window functions
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2026
Interview
Applied online. Got an OA. OA was not that difficulty, on the easier side to be honest. Got an email asking for interview availability.
Interview in a week. Will update soon.
Very difficult process it took me a round 1 month to get back what’s the review for the interview so I think overall it’s bad experience and difficult interview process while it has lot of questions I wa able to answer
Standard three-round process consisting of an online assessment followed by a comprehensive interview loop, where candidates were evaluated across technical skills, problem solving ability, and overall fit for the role.