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. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2017
Interview
2 phone screens and then the onsite interview. Phone screens are based on SQL and data modelling. Onsite interviews are based on SQL, ETL, Data modelling and behavioral questions. Overall, the experience was good except one of the onsite interviewers.
Total 5 onsite interviews. 4 of them were very nice. Good people to interact with.
1 of them was extremely rude, highly unprofessional in the whole interview. He kept pressurizing me and at each step behaved like he was being forced to take this interview. He once even said, "This is a very bad habit (of yours). You are wasting my time". He was literally yelling at me. I felt like walking out of the interview, but I kept calm.
This was the worst interview I have ever appeared for and sadly it came from Amazon. If Amazon really thinks about the 'candidate experience', I would strongly suggest not to include this extremely unprofessional man on interview panels so that at least future candidates do not suffer the way I did.
Hence even when other interviewers were very nice, this one interview made the experience terrible. I later found that this rude guy worked in the same team I was interviewing for. So declining the offer was a no-brainer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Leadership principles related questions. Can't mention the exact questions since I signed the NDA.
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.