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Amazon Data Engineering Interview Questions

Amazon is one of the FAANG companies, and its data engineering interviews lean on ranking, joins and aggregations. These questions cover the same ground, in SQL, pandas and Python.

Start solving and check your level of preparation.

The questions

QuestionTopicDifficulty
  • First unique characterPythonStringseasy
  • Large orders with customer namesSQLJoinseasy
  • Products with no brandSQLNULL handlingeasy
  • Revenue by categoryPandasAggregationseasy
  • Customers without ordersSQLJoinsmedium
  • Flatten a category treePythonListsmedium
  • Hours between scansSQLWindow functionsmedium
  • Orders from enterprise customersSQLSubqueriesmedium
  • Packages still movingSQLRankingmedium
  • Stage times per packageSQLReshapingmedium
  • Largest order per customerPandasRankinghard
  • Slowest package per facilitySQLRankinghard

Questions last reviewed 19 October 2026.

Topics they cover

  • Ranking3
  • Joins2
  • Aggregations1
  • Lists1
  • NULL handling1
  • Reshaping1
  • Strings1
  • Subqueries1
  • Window functions1

Other roles at Amazon

  • Amazon Data Analyst
  • Amazon Data Science

Amazon sits in

  • FAANG Data Engineering

Data Engineering questions at other companies

  • Best Buy9
  • Target8
  • Walmart8
  • Stripe7
  • Netflix5

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