I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2015
Interview
I got a message from Amazon recruiter on LinkedIn. I was interested to give a try and attended the first telephonic interview. Call started directly with a code edit kind of screen share platform and started with simple SQL questions and ended up with complex. Questions around performance tuning, DWH, Data modeling, Normalization concepts, RDBMS etc. Call lasted for 1 hour. I answered almost all questions. I got an email from HR team after 3 days to attend On-Site interview at Seattle,WA. Went to Seattle and a day full of interviews. Had to meet 8 persons in total. Full of white board sessions - 3 rounds of Technical interview - again mostly around Data Modeling, Complex SQL queries, RDBMS, Performance tuning, Little bit of programming Shell scripting etc. 2 rounds of behavioral interview - more of scenario based questions and my reactions to the same. 1 HR casual round. 1 person to meet at lunch who was Head of the BU. Overall the day was too tiring. The whole day went fine as per my knowledge, with some issues in Data Modeling. I didn't get an email/call yet, hence thinking I have not been selected for that role. All the best guys, Hope this helps.
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To build a Data Model of a reservation platform. The job description didn't refer to data modeling at all. Anyhow, just be prepared with all corners, since you would be bombarded in all directions :-).
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Chicago, IL) in June 2025
Interview
Amazon interviews consist of two types of questions:
1) Behavioral Questions based on the Amazon Leadership Principles (LPs)
2) Technical and Functional Questions based on the qualifications of the job.
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Question 1
You are given a list of dictionaries, where each dictionary represents a product with keys 'product_id', 'product_name', and 'price'.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2024
Interview
The recruiter set up the first round phone screening, and it took us three weeks to finally find a time. Though the interviewer didn't show up during the scheduled time, and the recruiter kept ghosting me without any updates. It looks like the position has been filled, but they gave no respect on the candidates who are still in the interview process. It's the worst interview experience I've ever had.
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Question 1
Just had the recruiter round, some questions on the backgrounds and experience.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2024
Interview
1 hour * 1 round of technical screening, behaviour questions & SQL questions asked
1 hour * 5 rounds loop interviews, a lot of behavior questions each round, 1 round of pandas coding, and 1 round of SQL coding included.
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Question 1
How would you handle a situation where a customer's expectations were not met by our product/service?