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 through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Pittsburgh, PA) in Aug 2024
Interview
A recruiter texted me to schedule a call with her. She collected my personal info and skills/tech stacks I had. She also asked me for 5 one-hour-long availabilities for the next phone interview round. Though it was postponed once, I just finished this round today and was waiting for the instructions of the next round.
This phone interview was 3 weeks after my original connection with the recruiter. The interviewer was nice though it took more effort to understand her description of a problem. The live coding session took place on a plain text software provided by Amazon. Pseudo code is accepted as we couldn't execute to fact-check the syntax.
Interview questions [7]
Question 1
A customer comes to you with complaints on that the reports were too slow, what is your take?
There are two tables (tab1 and tab2). Both have one column and below is the data.
Tab1 (col1)
1
1
NULL
Tab2 (col1)
1
1
NULL
NULL
How many records would every join (LOJ, ROJ and FOJ) result?
Given a string, write a function “recurring char” to find the strings first recurring character. Return “None” if there is no recurring character.
Note: Treat upper and lower case letters as distinct characters. You may assume the input string includes no spaces.
Example:
input = "interviewquery"
output = "i"
input = "interv"
output = "None"
Tell me a time when you needed to finish your project within a tight deadline. What did you do? What sacrifice did you make?
Be prepared for follow-ups.
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.