Amazon Web Services Analytics Engineer Interview Questions

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SQL & Data ManipulationStart here. 7 questions · ~86 min

Highest-Grossing Products by CountryMedium

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Rank the two highest-revenue products per country in 2015 using joins, aggregation, date filtering, and a ranking window function.

Date FunctionsJoinsAggregations

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Top Sold Products QueryMedium

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Join customer orders to customers and return the five products with the highest units sold during 2015.

Date FunctionsJoinsAggregations

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Speeding Up Large JoinsMedium

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Suggest practical ways to speed up joins on large tables and identify the join pattern that will scale better.

database optimizationlarge datasetsJoins

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Schema Design for User ActivityHard

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Design normalized activity tables and query each user's recent activity count and latest event efficiently.

database optimizationschema designquery optimization

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Behavioral & Leadership7 questions · ~86 min

Resolve Conflicting Metric DefinitionsMedium

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Tests stakeholder alignment, conflict resolution, and judgment when business users disagree on metric definitions.

Conflict ResolutionStakeholder ManagementCommunication

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More topics3 questions · ~37 min

Improve Bar Chart VisualizationHard

Critique a salary-by-age-group chart, clarify its purpose, and recommend a more accurate, interpretable visualization.

dashboardsdata pointsdiagnostic process

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Handle Late-Arriving Data in ETLHard

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Design an idempotent daily ETL process that incorporates late-arriving records without duplicating or corrupting historical results.

Data QualityETLBatch Processing

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Consistency Across Data SourcesMedium

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Approach for keeping records aligned and trustworthy when multiple source systems feed the same pipeline.

InfrastructureQuality

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