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      Data Engineer Interview

      Jun 10, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Bezos Academy in May 2022

      Interview

      Though the idea behind BA is excellent, the way they conducted interviews is messy and unprofessional. The following are some pros and cons I found from my one-month interview with them. Pro: The idea is excellent since they try to help underrepresented families to get better preschool education. The C-level staff is friendly and interesting, and I enjoyed talking to them. Con: The whole process is lengthy and not organized well. It took me more than one month to complete the entire process. I was told to have another technical screening on the day of the “final” round interview. The story did not end here. Just a couple of hours before this technical screening, I was told that the interview was canceled because the interviewer was sick. Though it was rare, I thought it was still understandable. However, the story did not end here either. I was told that another interviewer could do it the next day. I gave them my availability, and their HR confirmed and said I would get a meeting invitation. However, two hours later, HR sent me an email saying that the interviewer could not do it and that they needed to reschedule it. I did not get any meeting invite until the next day. The sequence of rounds does not make sense. I have spent days preparing their 2nd and “final” round, in which you need to talk to their C-level staff for a couple of hours, as some other reviewers said, but I found it is that 40 mins technical screening that made the final decision. If they could put this post-final technical screening in the first round, it would save a lot of time and effort for both parties, though I’m afraid I have to disagree with their conclusion on me from it (if their conclusion were true, I should have been kicked out by my current company instead of getting a promotion) The technical assessment step (2nd round) is weird and time and effort-consuming. Unlike other organizations I have interviewed, you don’t answer questions, code for specific questions, or make designs for a virtual scenario. You need to provide a working solution for a dummy situation. You will not only provide all your codes to them, and they also need to run queries against your solution. They don’t offer you the platform, so I had to use my account on a cloud provider to complete this assessment. Though the monetary cost is not huge, the time and effort you spend are significant. Moreover, you assumed that you did a good job since no questions were asked about this assessment, but the post-final technical screening made the final decision. I wish BA could improve the organizing and designing of interviews. I think the organization evaluates the job candidates through interviews, but the job candidates also examine the organization from it. Good luck to BA, and I really want to see more and more kids can benefit from your idea.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Behavior questions plus technical assessment
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