The Role of Data Engineers at Amazon
If youâre wondering what your role as a data engineer at Amazon would entail, hereâs what it looks like;
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Amazonâs data engineers play a crucial role in the companyâs day-to-day business operations. Data engineers work closely with various teams, including product, marketing, and operations, to ensure that data is leveraged effectively for decision-making. Being a consumer-centric organization with millions of users, data engineers play a critical role in helping understand consumer behavior and working closely with AI and ML teams to build algorithms for predictive data models.Â
The interview process for data engineers at Amazon is very similar to the process for software engineering roles. Just like how software engineers need to be good with coding, data engineers need to be adept in object-oriented programming languages, namely Python, C++, and Java. The process has a coding round where problems are asked around core data structures and algorithms. Besides coding, data engineers also have to be good with ETL design, data modeling, and SQL.
In this article, weâll look at some Amazon data engineer interview questions and also take a quick look at the interview process for data engineering roles. Hereâs what weâll cover in this article:
3 What happens behind the scenes
Your recruiter is leading the process and taking you from one stage to the next. Heres what happens after each of the stages we’ve just described:
Its also important to note that recruiters and people who refer you have little influence on the overall process. They can help you get an interview at the beginning, but thats about it.
You are assigned to work on a new engineering project. How do you get started?
Start with the initial stages like gathering stakeholder input, understanding data requirements and creating process or logical data models.
SQL questions for data engineers typically include basic definitions, scenario-based questions and SQL query writing tests.