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Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 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
El proceso de entrevista consta de 2 partes fundamentales:
Leadership Principles, 2 por cada entrevistador. Recomendado seguir metodología STAR. Preguntas follow up luego
Prueba EXCEL + SQL, sencillo. Te dejan tiempo ilimitado, es offline la prueba
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you did something at work that wasn't your responsibility / in your job description
Tough. They asked me to explain pseudo-code in sql for business problems. Additionally they asked me how I would tackle a business problem. For the behavioral questions, they were very similar to the 12 leadership core principles, so it’s important to study those and be able to show how you embody those.