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 submitted my resume on linked, the recruiter sent me an email and asked me few questions, then I was scheduled for the next interview. if you have strong knowledge of SQL and Python, then you should ok.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Do you need, or will you need in the future, any immigration-related support or sponsorship from Amazon in order to begin or continue employment with Amazon?
2. Are you currently actively interviewing and do you have any deadlines or final interviews?
3. What are your total compensation expectations (you do not need to provide current compensation)?
4. Where are you physically located at? I currently have a couple of positions offering in NY/Arlington/LA/Boulder, would you be willing to relocate after COVID pandemic?
5. How many years of experience do you have in the BI space?
6. Is your day to day work involved with ETL/Data Warehouse?
7. Do you have experience building dashboards or data visualizations? Please describe.
8. Give us an example of how you’ve used data visualization tools. Please do not provide confidential information.
9. Please rate yourself (1-10 with 10 being expert) in the following programming languages: Python/R
Do you have experience using SQL in ETL or data analysis?
10. What is your preferred scripting language?
11. How many years of experience do you have using statistics in data analysis?
How is your time broken down (by percentage) among your main responsibilities?
12. What is your experience with query optimization/performance turning?
13. Describe how you have used data to inform decision making (if any)?
Do you have any project lead and management experience?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney) in Jul 2026
Interview
Applied online and got a link to SQL assessment and finished Phone screen round of 1 hour. Now requested to schedule a call with HR and also waiting to get to know next steps of the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL question, About my previous experience, little bit of data modelling and 1 behavior question
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