Amazon
E-commerce and cloud computing giant with AWS, the world's leading cloud platform.
5 Rounds
~28 Days
Very Hard
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Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the second highest salary per department.
#Window Functions
#SQL
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to compute a 7-day rolling average of daily sales.
#Window Functions
#Analytics
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to find the rolling 7-day average of daily sales per product category, given an 'orders' table with order_id, product_id, category_id, order_date, and order_amount.
#Window Functions
#Time Series
#Aggregations
Data Engineer
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Coding
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hard
Write a SQL query to identify 'loyal' customers who have made at least one purchase in 3 consecutive months.
#Self Joins
#Window Functions
#Gaps and Islands
Data Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a SQL query to calculate the Year-over-Year (YoY) growth rate of total revenue for each product sub-category.
#Date Functions
#CTEs
#Math Operations
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the difference between OLAP and OLTP systems. When would you use each?
#OLAP
#OLTP
#Databases
Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How would you optimize a SQL query that is running slowly on a 1 billion row table?
#Query Optimization
#Indexing
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Explain the difference between RANK(), DENSE_RANK(), and ROW_NUMBER().
#Window Functions
#SQL
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What is a materialized view? How does it differ from a regular view?
#Materialized Views
#Performance
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What are CTEs (Common Table Expressions) and how do they differ from subqueries?
#CTEs
#SQL
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