Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 38% 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 32 days to get hired, when considering 13 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 36 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a Data Engineer according to 13 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 18%
Skills test: 18%
One on one interview: 15%
Background check: 12%
Personality test: 12%
Presentation: 12%
Group panel interview: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
Other: 3%
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services in Dec 2024
Interview
Five-stage funnel: (1) brief recruiter screen, (2) 90-minute online coding + SQL test, (3) technical phone interview focused on ETL design and AWS analytics services, (4) virtual “loop” with four back-to-back panels—two deep technical, two leadership-principle behavioral—each lasting 45 minutes, and (5) final bar-raiser chat. Questions balanced hands-on data-modeling scenarios with Amazon’s Leadership Principles. Feedback was prompt, interviewers were friendly but pressed for depth, and the overall timeline from application to offer was about four weeks.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Outlined Kinesis Data Streams for ingestion, Kinesis Data Firehose to stage in S3, AWS Glue streaming jobs for transformation, partitioned Parquet output in S3, and Redshift Spectrum/Athena for ad-hoc analytics. Emphasized auto-scaling, error handling with DLQs, and cost tracking via Cost Explorer.
Back to back interviews, leetcode easy and one SQL. The first one was covering basic pythin syntax and problem solving. The second, thhe intervierw was coming up with SQL questions on the spot.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (London, England)
Interview
The interview was lengthy with online problem-solving questions, experience-related questions, and two coding questions. Could do one, not both. The interviewer was also very dry and did not give a lot of attention to the interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I dont exactly remember but it was related to decision trees.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
Interview
Initial Pre-screen with Recruiter
Data modeling and sql for real scenarios
Python Coding
Bar Raiser and Leadership Principles
Interview with Hiring Manger was mostly about the projects and how I handled the challenges.