Tell me about a time when you had to leave a task unfinished.

Tell me about a time when you gave a simple solution to a complex problem OR most complex
problem you’ve ever worked on
Tell me about a time when you invented something
Tell me about a time when you had to work with incomplete data or information.
Tell me about a time when you influenced a change by only asking questions.
Tell me about a time when you solved a problem through just superior knowledge or observation
Tell me about your proudest professional achievement.As you look back on your career so far, what
would you say you’re most proud of?
Tell me about a time when you took a calculated risk.
Tell me about a time when you had to work with limited time or resources.
Tell me about an unpopular decision of yours.
Different join , lead , lag, pivoting in sql , sub query, group by having, where, aggregate and how you
would find outliers,Rank, row_number, dense rank
Describe a difficult situation with a team you managed in the past.
What were the outcomes of your direct reports.
Describe a time you didn’t think you were going to meet a commitment you promised? How did you
identify the risk and communicate it to the stakeholder/team/customer?
Give me an example of a time you were able to deliver an important project under a tight deadline? Did
you have to make any sacrifices to meet this deadline?
Tell me about a time where you did not effectively manage your project and something did not get
completed on time?
Tell me about a time when you not only met a goal but considerably exceeded expectations? How
were you able to do this? Give me two examples of when you did more than what was required in any
job experience.
Can you describe a difficult interaction you’ve had with a customer? How did you deal with it? Thinking
back, what would you do differently? OR Most difficult customer OR Tell me about a time that you
dealt with a hostile customer.
Can you provide an example of when you asked a customer for feedback? How did you use that
feedback to drive innovation or improvement? OR Tell me about a time when a customer gave you
critical feedback.
Tell me about a time you disagreed with feedback you received. How did you address it?
Sometimes customers make unreasonable requests, can you tell me about a time you pushed back or
said no to a customer? What did you do in response to that request?
Can you tell me about a time when you made an important business decision without consulting your
manager? What was the situation and how did it turn out?
Describe a software architecture you have helped design.
Can you think of a time you made a bad professional decision? What was the impact of the decision?
What did you learn?
Can you think of a time when you had to make a decision but you didn’t have enough data to be sure
you were making the right decision? What did you do and how did it work out?

Building trust with teams can be difficult to achieve sometimes. Can you give me an example of how
you effectively built trusting working relationships with others? OR What steps do you take to form
positive and functional relationships with your colleagues? OR How do you keep yourself / your team /
your colleagues motivated? OR Give me an example of a time when you motivated others.
What’s the coolest thing that you’ve learned on your own that you’ve then been able to apply in your
job and to further perform your job?
Can you describe a time you needed the cooperation of a peer that was resistant? What was the
situation and how did you handle that?
how do you query tune? if a query is taking more time then it initially did, what may be the checkpoints
and order of things to check to look at the cause
Give me an example of when you used data to make a decision that solved a problem.
What are the variables you would consider when you are going to predict demand for a product?
Which leadership principle of Amazon’s do you connect with most? OR What are your favorite and
second most favorite leadership principles?
Tell me about a time you faced a crisis at work. How did you handle it?
Describe [Amazon product or service relevant to the role] as you would to a prospective customer.
Can you tell me about a time you had to make a fast customer service decision without any guidance?
How did you decide what to do?
When given an unfamiliar task, how do you ensure you handle it properly?
If you are given two conflicting priorities from two separate managers, how do you figure out how to
proceed?
Give me an example of when you received criticism. How did you respond to the information?
What metrics do you use to drive positive change?
Tell me about a time when you were handling a project that went outside of your scope of work. How
did you handle it?
Describe a situation where you had to deal with ambiguity when making a decision.
Can you tell me about a time when you had to make a decision when all of the data you needed was
unavailable?
Tell me about a time when you made a poor customer service decision. What steps did you take to
remedy the situation?
What do you do to ensure that the customer experience is always a priority?

What do you like most about Amazon? What do you like least?
Describe an instance where you were overwhelmed while on the job. How did you handle it?
Tell me about a time when you failed to meet expectations. What did you do to recover?
What steps do you take to make sure every customer you speak with is wowed?
How do you make sure that you fully understand a customer’s needs?
Tell me about the last time you had to apologize to someone.
Are you able to handle the physical demands of a warehousing job?
What qualities do you possess that will help you succeed with Amazon?
Can you describe a typical day in this role?
What defines success in this position?
What is the biggest challenge Amazon is facing today? How does this role help solve it?
Tell me a challenge you had where the best way forward was not clear cut. How did you decide what
to do?
Give me an example of something you tried to accomplish but failed.
Give me an example of a time when you showed initiative.
Tell me about a time when you delegated a project effectively.
Tell me about a time when you coached someone.
When have you used your fact finding skills to solve a problem?
Tell me about a time when you developed something for a customer that they did not ask for.
Tell me about a time when you worked on a project outside of your scope.

Tell me about the most innovative project you worked on, why it was innovative, and what the
challenges were.

Tell me about a time where you made a decision without having complete information.
Tell me about a time you made a design decision where a lot of people had opposed you. Why did
they oppose you?
Tell me about a time you made a design decision where a lot of people had agreed with you. Why did
they agree with you?
Tell me about a skill you recently learned. How did you learn it?
Tell me about an experience you went through that changed your way of thinking.

Tell me about a time when one of your team members had difficulty doing a project. What did you do?

Tell me about a time when everything was going well on a project, yet you worked on an improvement
that no one had asked for. What was the improvement? Why did you think it was important?
Tell me about a time when you raised the bar.
How would you measure success?
Tell me about a time when you had to make a bold and difficult decision.
Tell me about a time when you had a conflict and you had multiple ways to resolve it. How did you
evaluate your options? Which solution did you choose and why?

Tell me about a time when you made a decision too quickly and what you would have done differently.
Tell me about a time when you had to work with limited time or resources.
Tell me about a time where you turned down more resources to complete an assignment.
How do you earn the trust of stakeholders?
Tell me about a time when you made a mistake.
Tell me about a time when you worked on a project that got delayed. How did you handle it? Once you
know it would be delayed, explain the actions you took afterwards.
Tell me about a time when you had a problem and you had to go through several hoops to discover
the root cause.
Tell me about a time when you had a problem yet no one was willing to investigate since they thought
it was outside their scope of ownership.
Tell me about a time when an idea you proposed was not agreed on. How did you react?
What do you believe that no one else does?
Tell me about a time when everyone else on your team gave up on something but you pushed the
team towards delivering a result.
How do you prioritize requests from multiple stakeholders?
If there is a project that you have never worked on before, how would you tell that the data you are
using for this project is correct and you'll get the correct results?
How would you set up an online A/B testing scenario, and how would you determine whether or not to
roll out a new program given the results of the experiment?
What are the different ways of query optimization and performance tuning?
Describe a join to a non-technical person

You have a website and you need to report the traffic insights on this website to the Product Manager.
Write an SQL query to find the top 10 persons who have visited the website in the last month.
How is variance calculated in PCA?
What are the assumptions in a random forest model?
If we want to know whether people like a product, is there any statistical problems you can see when
the analysis is based on their behavior on the website
Difference between ETL and Elt, cataloguing and metadata management for power bi, best practices
for making performant
when your decision was not liked by your team? what did you do about it?
you have been unsatisfied with the status quo. What did you do to change it? Were you successful?
time when you were dissatisfied with the quality of something at work and went out of your way to
improve it.
time you took a big risk and it failed. What did you learn? What would you do differently?
time you were working on an initiative or goal and saw an opportunity to do something much bigger
than the initial focus.
how would you find your demand going to be for a product when you dont have any history. what are
the KPIs
you would use to differentiate your product from your competitor. there was a campaign conducted by
the
marketing team and how would you find out if the campaign was successful?
you have been unsatisfied with the status quo. What did you do to change it? Were you successful?
Tell me one scenario where you found some gaps in your work which impacted a huge impact to the
business/clients.
How did you drill-through during that scenario?
How woud you visualize week-over-week revenue?
Row Level Security vs Column Level Security in Tableau?
How do you justify that you have to skip Manger approval?
When you commit to a deadline in Project and you cannot finish, how do you communicate to
customers?
What was the reason that attributed to miss the deadline?(follow up of question#1) LP
What is the solution or fix that it won’t happen again? (follow up of question#1) LP
Any example of what you did even before your customers asked for it? LP
Do customers in your project want email notification or visual Dashboards and how do you justify?
What is the risk involved and what could be the impact if you had to wait till Manger Approval?
Given a product sale information on Amazon shopping website, what would be your approach to
decide which product to price cut to improve the sales?

How do you measure your success, like which product price cuts did better on quantity of sales, profit?
How do you design your dashboards to show/measure your success?
How do you design a data model for Lyft ride App

When you commit to a deadline in Project and you cannot finish, how you communicate to customers?
Several follow up of question#1 why it happened, what was the risk and impact and what you can do
to avoid this in future?
Below question was another flavor asked before by another interviewer
Give me an example when you were the outlier when the whole team was taking one decision(BB,
Disagree and commit)?
Several follow up of question#3?
Give me an example when you suggested a solution to customer and had a great success?
What is the proud moment of your career when you not only met the goal but exceeded?
Give me an example when you worked on something which is NOT your regular part of job or went
beyond your responsibility and had a great success?
Several follow up of question#1 like what exactly you did and how it impacted the customers, How you
tested your work and measure your success?
Questions on Predictive Analytics and Prescriptive Analytics?
You launch a NEW product in a New region and how you predict it will grow/fail ?
If your product is not growing, how will find what are the factors impacting it?
How will you compare it against the similar products?
Design a data model for a school

Why Amazon
Strengths
I will be able to Grow & Develop alongside other motivated people. Amazon has
led the way in providing customer experience & set the benchmark in customer
exp. I think I can reach my full potential working with amazon when I
demonstrate leadrship principles
I have zeal to find insights from data. I like the power the predictive analytics
Who
Who will receive each report?
Who should be able to access which information?
Who will develop and maintain the report?
Who is responsible for the report’s data?
What
What information will be on each report?
What reports currently exist in another format?
What changes might be made to existing reports?
What new data views should be included?
What formatting should apply to each report?
What design specifications should each report have?
What snapshotting or historical functionalities should this report have?
What interactive, drilldown, and “slice-n-dice” capabilities should this report have, if shared online?
What ETLs or stored procedures need to be developed, if any?
What database enhancements might have to be added to meet reporting requirements?
When
When will each report be delivered?
When will the analytical team receive training on the new BI system?
Where
Where will recipients access the report? Online in a shared environment? A shared drive? Email attachments?
Email screenshots?
Where will recipients access snapshots or historical versions of the report?
Why
Why should the receiver view the report?
Why is this report critical to the business?
find all the employees who joined before their manager
employee(employee_id,manager_id,join_date)

List all employees with salary greater than the everage department salary and also
greather than $50K
salary(department_id,employee_id,salary)

Write a query to pull the monthly revenue as columns instead of rows. Monthly Revenue :
company_name,month,revenue
top rider
ID table with duplicate rows: id1,id2
Select only the duplicate rows.
how you would find outliers

A Bat and a Ball cost 1.10$, the bat costs 1$ more than the ball. How much costs the ball?
5 Machines create 5 products in 5 Minutes. How long does it take for 100 Machines to
create 100 products?
There is a patch of sea roses in a lake. It doubles in size each day. The lake will be
covered in 48 days. How many days will it take to fill half of the lake?
Name and explain all forms of join in SQL
SQL Questions involved simple like filtering on a WHERE clause, GROUP BY, HAVING,
CASE , Get Year and Month from Date, SUM, calculate %
Ranking a table by revenue (Add a Rank Column), without using Rank()
How would you handle a case where the report is running slowly
Palindrome, Fibonacci ,panagram, filter nulls,missing value position
what is p value,null hypothesis,difference between parameter and filter
Find Primary Key on a Table?
Lead & Lag without using those functions?
select employee_id,
e.join_date as 'employee_join_date',
m.join_date as 'manager_join_date'
from employee e
join employee m on e.manager_id = m.employee_id
where e.join_date > m.join_date
select employee_id from (select employee_id,salary,
AVG(salary) over (partition by department_id) avg_sal
from employee) e
where
e.salary>e.avg_sal and e.salary>50000

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