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Amazon Data Engineering interview questions

65 interview questions for Data Engineering roles at Amazon, written from Amazon’s 8 current postings on its own careers page. These are what the postings say to prepare for — not questions Amazon has asked.

Built 2026-10-12

Three of the questions

  1. Walk me through how you would design an ETL pipeline on AWS Glue and Redshift that consolidates finance data from 11 countries into a single unified dataset tracking 500+ operational and cost metrics at daily granularity. How would you structure it so that a new country can be onboarded without rewriting the pipeline?
    Technical depth · from the posting: “build and scale a unified data platform that supports over 100 active finance users across 11 countries... tracks 500+ operational and cost metrics at daily granularity”
  2. It's the morning before a weekly business review and the finance team's cost-performance dashboard is showing numbers that don't reconcile between finance, stores, and operations datasets. Walk me through how you'd triage this.
    Scenarios & troubleshooting · from the posting: “collaborating with finance analysts to reconcile discrepancies between finance, stores, and operations datasets”
  3. These teams are actively migrating legacy systems to AWS and consolidating data from 11 countries and 100+ finance users. Tell me about a time you had to manage a complex data migration while keeping the old system running. What went wrong, and how did you handle it?
    Behavioural · from the posting: “the team is revamping the legacy datasets, dashboards and processes and is actively migrating to a new AWS-based infrastructure”
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What the full prep holds

  • Common questions · 8
  • Your background · 3
  • Quick-fire technical · 25
  • Technical depth · 12
  • System design · 5
  • Scenarios & troubleshooting · 6
  • The company & the problem · 3
  • Behavioural · 3
  • Questions to ask them · 3

A free account shows the 8 common questions and the 3 above. Basic and Elite show every question with how to answer it; Elite also writes your own answers from your resume. See plans.

The Amazon postings it is written from