Amazon Business Analyst interview questions

1. Recruiter Call - wasn't really an interview. Recruiter just outlined the position, made sure this was a right technical fit for the role, and explained the importance of knowing leadership principles and STAR interview technique. I felt that this interview style was a bit insincere, and encourages interviewees to brainwash themselves and their experiences to reflect the leadership principles. They are great principles for any organization to have for sure, but the whole "take your experiences and show leadership principle" process to me felt very insincere. To each their own. 2. Technical Screen - Invite said this would be a live coding session but we didn't code at all. Spent 5 minutes talking about my background. Spent 30-40 minutes technical interview. Spent 5 minutes with a leadership principle question. All hypothetical technical questions. SQL (aggregations, groupby, joins, order by, window funcitons). Tableau (explain specific Tableau features, how would you use Tableau to do a certain type of analysis). Questions were not that difficult, but the interviewer probed deeply. You need to know your stuff. Job seemed like a grindhouse and I didn't particularly vibe well with the "brainwashing" of leadership principles in the interview process.

I submitted my application for a Business Analyst role via the Amazon jobs portal. I was contacted by a recruiter shortly thereafter. She set up an interview with a team member pretty quickly after. I was informed that this would be a part behavioral and technical interview. The first interview was one run by a team member-- not the hiring manager but someone adjacent to this team's hiring manager. This interview was good. The interviewer went directly into questions about my experience but did not ask any technical (SQL) questions. I was a bit surprised by the latter as I had prepared for a SQL interview. I was moved to the virtual onsite interview where I spoke with six folks for about one hour each. The recruiter had prepped me by telling me that this would be STAR focused, and discussed which Amazon principles were most important to this role. The onsite interviews felt almost like an interrogation; I did not feel comfortable in the setting. I am a woman of color and spoke with five white men in a row who seemed to challenge and attempt to invalidate my professional experiences. I did not feel any rapport with the interviewers. In the end, I never heard feedback from my recruiter despite the fact that I sent multiple emails, two calls, and a voicemail. I was ghosted. For all of the effort that I put into the interview process, an email rejection would have been welcomed.