Amazon Overview & Culture Fit Questions
Overview of Amazon's business model, organizational structure, and leadership principles (Amazon Leadership Principles). Includes guidance on how to assess culture fit during interviews and discussions about Amazon's values and working environment.
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Explain Amazon's 'Frugality' principle and propose two low-cost BI improvements that would reduce dashboard load time or compute costs while maintaining necessary insights. For each improvement, estimate the expected savings and note trade-offs.
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Describe a scalable method (with SQL pseudocode or queries) to detect schema and distribution drift for user event tables at scale. Include checks for missing/new fields, cardinality changes, distribution shifts for key columns, and how you would aggregate daily statistics to minimize scanning large raw tables.
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Pick one Amazon product (Alexa, AWS, Prime, or Marketplace). For that product, outline three weekly KPIs you would present, how you would compute each (data sources/tables), and how each KPI would drive product decisions.
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Design a 3–5 year plan to build a BI team within an Amazon business unit. Include hiring profiles, required competencies (analytics, ETL, dashboarding, product partnership), role levels and career ladders, metrics for team success, onboarding, and a training program that aligns with Amazon Leadership Principles.
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You discover a 3% discrepancy between warehouse-based revenue reports and the finance ledger for Q4. Finance requests an explanation and remediation. Describe concrete investigative steps, common root causes (timing, FX, refunds, double-counting), reconciliation techniques, and controls you'd implement to prevent recurrence.
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