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      Data Engineer - Business Intelligence Interview

      Apr 6, 2018
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2018

      Interview

      Hi everyone! Maybe this info will be helpful I had a phone interview At first, the interviewer asked me about my experience with data. Which ETL process I had designed wich tool used. Which methods I use to validate data and other sorts of situational questions about maintaining etl process (do not remember all questions) Then he asked me about data modelling. Asked which primary key would I used a surrogate or natural key. Which type of schema I will use for creating reports - means snowflake and star schema. (I described the difference between OLAP and OLTP). Well to sum up ETL - surrogate or natural key, situational questions, methods to validate data, tools Data Modeling + DWH - OLAP & OLTP, snowflake and star schema, Normal Forms, tools for reports (unfortunately I didn't use Tableau) Performance tuning - handle long running queries, Indexes, query plan, partitioning SQL - two tasks in whiteboard (look questions below) My advise repeat analytic and aggregate functions It was my first interview with USA company Even I didn't get an offer still it was a good experience for me and I certainly will try again

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      You have this table - orders (order_id, customer_id, order_datetime, order_amt): 1)select top 10 paying customers for given month
      2 Answers

      Question 2

      2) create daily revenue report between given start_date and end_date output schema: (order_date, number_of_customers, number_of_orders, daily_total_order_amount, mtd_order_amount) mtd_order_amount - total order_amt from the beginning of the month till order_date
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