Sr. Data Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 56.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Data Engineer roles take an average of 7 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Sr. Data Engineer according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 67%
Skills test: 33%
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The interview process was in 2 steps. First one was initial screening and then 5 rounds of interviews with different team members and one includes Bar raiser. The bar raiser round was deciding factor.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (North Toronto, ON) in Jan 2026
Interview
The first screening test. Based on what I read from other peoples experiences, I studied so many different things but that only asked very basic sql and mostly multi choice platform question
Attended the first round. It was easy, but I answered all the questions still rejected me. Then I has 5 - 6 rounds as well all of based on Data Modelling and Python and SQL
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about youself
difference between Union and Union All
SQL code to find time in minutes from intervals
Python of a loop ending with a condition and then print max and min number