Amazon Data Engineer Phone Screen Questions
22+ questions from real Amazon Data Engineer Phone Screen rounds, reported by candidates who interviewed there.
What does the Amazon Phone Screen round test?
The Amazon phone screen typically lasts 45-60 minutes and evaluates core Data Engineer fundamentals. Candidates should expect 1-2 algorithmic problems, basic system design discussion at senior levels, and questions about relevant experience. The goal is to confirm technical competence before bringing candidates onsite.
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Initial Phone Screen . Interviewer was super helpful. Nice Experience Behaviourial : 4 Leadership Question a. Tell me when you said no to customer and how you handle it b. Tell time when...
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Hi i have a phone interview for amazon data engineer-1 role. Can anyone please suggest me type of questions i can expect? Thanks in advance.
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I would like to share my interview experience with Amazon for the Data Engineer Role: Phone screen: Techinal Round 1: I was asked some 3 tricky SQL questions but were easy to...
Status: Experienced Data Engineer Position: Data Engineer at Amazon Location: Dublin Ireland Date: April 7 2022 Phone Interview 1 Generic Question : What are your career goals Why amazon Career Summary Python...
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Today I had my phone screen interview with Amazon for Sr Data engineer role It was coding round Interviewer explain about coding round then his introduction He asked me about my intro and...
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Basic Sql question : 1. How will you improve performance of table 2. Where vs Having difference 3. what is CTE and subquery, When will you use CTE and when will you use...
It started with brief introduction and experience. 3 sql questions: 1. Basic left join with two tables 2. group by 3. partition 1 python question Find the highest occuring number in the list, in case of...
Hi All, I am sharing my experience from Amazon\'s phone interview for the position Big Data Engineer II in Dallas, TX. 1.SQL: **d_customers** +-------------+-----------------------+---------------------+ | customer_id | membership_start_date | membership_end_date | +-------------+-----------------------+---------------------+ | 114 | 2015-01-01 |...
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Data Modeling: Asked to design a data model for employee transfers within Amazon. An employee would apply for a transfer from one team to another The HR would review and...
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What to Expect in the Amazon Phone Screen Round
The Amazon Data Engineer Phone Screen round has a specific calibration purpose distinct from other rounds in the loop. Across 22+ verified reports on LeakCode for this exact round type, the consistent expectations: clear scoping of the problem before diving into a solution, explicit reasoning about complexity, structured handling of edge cases, and the ability to discuss trade-offs between two reasonable approaches.
Reports tagged with the Phone Screen round at Amazon show recurring patterns in difficulty and topic distribution. The Phone Screen round is typically 45-60 minutes; the interviewer is calibrated against a specific rubric. The discriminator between candidates who advance and candidates who do not is rarely the final correctness of the answer. It is the path: did you clarify, did you verbalize your approach, did you handle edge cases, and did you communicate throughout.
How To Prepare for This Specific Round
Filter the questions below to the most recent reports (past 6-12 months). Questions tagged for this exact round type from this exact company at this exact role level are the highest-signal data available. Older reports may reference questions that have since rotated out of the company's pool.
Practice 4-6 representative problems from this set under timed conditions. The goal is not memorization (companies rotate questions); the goal is to internalize the patterns the interviewer typically reaches for and the depth of follow-up to expect. Reports on LeakCode also tag the typical follow-up depth at this round type, which is the discriminating signal between hire and no-hire calibration.
Phone Screen Round Timing and Format
The Phone Screen round at Amazon typically runs 45-60 minutes. Use the first 2-3 minutes to clarify requirements; you should never start coding or designing without verifying the input/output format, constraints, and edge cases out loud. Use the next 5-7 minutes to verbalize your approach before writing any code. The middle 20-30 minutes are implementation. Reserve the final 10 minutes for testing with concrete examples and discussing optimization or trade-offs.
Time budget discipline is one of the most reliable senior-vs-junior discriminators in this round. Strong candidates verbalize where they are in their budget out loud ("I've used about 20 minutes, I have 15 minutes left for testing and one optimization"). This signals engineering maturity to the interviewer and creates positive feedback they can capture in writing.
Common Failure Modes in This Round
Reports tagged "no hire" at Amazon Data Engineer Phone Screen commonly cite: coding silently without verbalizing approach, jumping to implementation before clarifying requirements, missing edge cases (empty input, single element, very large input), producing working code that the candidate cannot refactor when asked, and failing to test their solution with concrete examples before declaring done.
The single most predictive failure mode in 2025-2026 reports: not asking clarifying questions. Interviewers at all FAANG companies are explicitly trained to weight this dimension. Strong candidates ask 3-5 clarifying questions even on problems that look obvious; weak candidates dive into code immediately. The clarifying-question check is often the first signal recorded in the interviewer's notes.
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