Amazon
E-commerce and cloud computing giant with AWS, the world's leading cloud platform.
5 Rounds
~28 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a real-time streaming pipeline to process and aggregate Amazon clickstream data to detect anomalous user behavior (e.g., bot scraping) within a 1-minute window.
#AWS Kinesis
#Apache Flink
#Stream Processing
#Anomaly Detection
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design an ETL pipeline to migrate 100TB of historical order data from an on-premise Oracle database to AWS Redshift, ensuring zero data loss and minimal downtime.
#Data Migration
#AWS DMS
#AWS S3
#AWS Redshift
Data Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a scalable Data Lake architecture on AWS to support both ad-hoc querying by data scientists and daily aggregated reporting by BI tools.
#Data Lake
#AWS S3
#AWS Athena
#AWS Glue
#Parquet/Iceberg
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The "Standard" Interviewer
Senior EngineerFocuses on core competencies, system constraints, and clear communication.
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