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Amazon Data Engineer Interview Questions

The questions to prepare for a Amazon Data Engineer interview. Questions from real interview reports rank first. Updated weekly.

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CodingStart here. 6 questions · ~57 min
Validate Nested BracketsEasy
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Validate nested API payload brackets using a stack and matching-pair lookup in linear time.

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Rolling Averages and OutliersHard
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Use a deque and running statistics to calculate rolling telemetry averages and detect outliers in linear time.

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Stream-Process JSON in S3Hard
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Tests ability to design memory-efficient data processing pipelines for large S3 datasets.

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SQL & Data Manipulation5 questions + 3 drills · ~78 min
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Behavioral & Leadership10 questions · ~96 min
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More topics2 questions · ~19 min
Data Cleaning and CodingMedium
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Evaluates hands-on data preparation skills and coding approach for messy data.

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Real-Time Processing with PipelinesMedium
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Evaluates experience designing pipelines for low-latency or streaming use cases.

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