I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderābād) in Sept 2017
Interview
The interviewer appeared a bit panicked based on the solutions I had provided specially for a question related to performance tuning in SQL Server. I have around 10 years of experience in SQL Server performance & tuning. I had given them every possible approach from start to finish on how to tune a poorly performing database step by step. Result, I got rejected. I even approached the HR for a round with some other candidate to judge my performance but the HR too highly unprofessional and said they believe in their Interviewers knowledge & judging. The interview was for team based in Hyderabad. The interview lasted for 15 mins. How can someone judge a person in 15 mins ? Save your time because politics is way to high in Hyderabad team and won't allow solid candidate to get into their hood.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
SQL Server performance tuning & some typical googled SQL question for age calculation.
The interview process was in 2 steps. First one was initial screening and then 5 rounds of interviews with different team members and one includes Bar raiser. The bar raiser round was deciding factor.
Attended the first round. It was easy, but I answered all the questions still rejected me. Then I has 5 - 6 rounds as well all of based on Data Modelling and Python and SQL
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me about youself
difference between Union and Union All
SQL code to find time in minutes from intervals
Python of a loop ending with a condition and then print max and min number
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (North Toronto, ON) in Jan 2026
Interview
The first screening test. Based on what I read from other peoples experiences, I studied so many different things but that only asked very basic sql and mostly multi choice platform question
