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      Data Engineer Interview

      Jan 9, 2022
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Chewy in Apr 2021

      Interview

      Meet with many different leaders across the company in 1 hour meetings. You will be asked technical questions and may be required to do a coding exercise, but the bulk of it is the Chewy Operating Principles pdf that the recruiter gives you. Chewy has dozens of behavioral-type questions for each of the areas in that pdf, and these questions will constitute a bulk of your interview, asking you to describe how / why you handled certain situations in your past experiences. Each interviewer will focus on certain operating principles. After the interview, each interviewer gets together and discusses whether or not you raised the bar, met the bar, or lowered the bar. This is referring to the job title you applied for and how your experiences, tech skills, etc match up against other employees in Chewy with the same title. Ex.) If you’re better than half of other Data Scientist I within the company, then you raise the bar. If you’re the same, you meet the bar, etc. They often look for candidates who raise the bar, which means that the threshold for the average Data Scientist I at the company in our example is improving, making it more difficult to get hired as the bar is frequently getting raised. If you aren’t a bar raiser / good fit for the team / role you applied for, it frequently happens that the interviewers will refer your application and interview results to another team within the company, who will then interview you in the same manner as above. The constantly raising bar increases the technical acumen of the team, but it also works against the company in that it makes it difficult to find and retain good employees as once the employees are there, they are worked very hard. During my orientation I was told that Chewy accepts only 5% of applicants.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Questions for the Data Engineer role involved use of windowing functions, CTEs, and cross joins. There were three SQL questions that were quite wordy and while they did represent a good set of things to know for SQL, I didn’t end up crafting SQL statements of that complexity at the job when I worked for the company. Most of the time my requirements on the job were to add fields to tables and update the SQL temp tables / transformations accordingly. The interview questions had sample tables and asked you to output certain data points from joining / transforming those tables. There were also two Python questions involving removing letters from words and and if within a try / except.
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      Other Data Engineer Interview Reviews for Chewy

      Data Engineer Interview

      Mar 25, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Chewy

      Interview

      I got a email to schedule interview and after sending dates. They vanished and not even an email saying they moved on. This is weird. And never applied here again

      Data Engineer Interview

      Mar 3, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Chewy

      Interview

      After one recruiter call, I was ghosted. Chewy leadership felt reminiscent of a notoriously toxic big tech culture. Disorganized process, poor follow-up. Applicants should reconsider investing time here at all cost.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Why do you want to join ? How past experience align with the current role ?
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      Data Engineer Interview

      Mar 5, 2025
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Chewy (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2025

      Interview

      1) Hiring Manager: Past experience 2) Virtual Loop: - System Design Round: No actual sys design, just verbal question - Behavioural x 2 : On their operating principles, they are not data enigineers, and will ask question which are out of scope for data engineerings, like ML, Agents, etc. - Coding: Python

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell me about the best project you worked on.
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      Chewy interviews FAQs

      • Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Chewy with 2.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 17% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
      • Candidates applying for Data Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Chewy overall takes an average of 18 days.
      • Common stages of the interview process at Chewy as a Data Engineer according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:

        Phone interview:  40%

        Presentation:  20%

        Personality test:  10%

        Group panel interview:  10%

        Skills test:  10%

        One on one interview:  10%

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