Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon en may 2025
Entrevista
It was the first round of interviews following the online assessment. This round focused mainly on technical skills, with about 80% of the questions related specifically to SQL. For Amazon, your SQL skills are crucial because the team works with it daily.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Tell me about yourself?
SQL Question -
Q1) You have a table as shown below. Find the networth of each user at the end of the month
Sender Receiver Date Amount
A B 1st May 2025 2000
B A 3rd May 2025 1000
A C 2nd May 2025 300
C A 5th May 2025 500
D B 6th may 2025 400
Q2) You have 2 tables Table A and Table B with the following data.
What would be the output of left, right, inner and full outer joins
(COUNT of rows for all joins)
Table A Table B
col1 col2
1 1
1 2
2 3
3 NULL
NULL 4
The interview process includes a SQL test, an initial recruiter call, and a final five-round loop featuring technical questions and discussions focused on Amazon leadership principles with different team members.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
They asked a key question focused on both technical depth and culture fit: how you apply your skills to solve real problems, along with examples demonstrating alignment with Amazon’s leadership principles.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Entrevista
Interviewed for Business Analyst role at Amazon and honestly the process felt exhausting and impersonal.
The interviewers seemed far more focused on checking boxes against the 14 Leadership Principles than actually understanding the candidate or having a genuine conversation. Almost every question was another version of a STAR behavioral scenario, even when it barely related to the actual role.
The process felt extremely rehearsed and rigid. There was little effort to make the candidate feel comfortable or valued, and it often felt like they had already decided the outcome before the interview even started.
Technical and analytical depth barely mattered compared to how perfectly you could package stories into Amazon’s preferred format. If you don’t have polished STAR stories memorized for every possible situation, the process can feel unnecessarily difficult and draining.
Overall, one of the most mentally exhausting interview experiences I’ve had.
The basic STAR format, but the team was not clear about what they were looking for. The recruiter was not very responsive and took a long time to schedule the calls