The Amazon business analyst job is a mix of technical data interpretation and business acumen. A successful business analyst will move into a career path of product management, analytics management, or business intelligence, all of which require depth as well as width of knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards that monitor and to drive key business decisions.
• Embed analytics into day to day operations by supporting and translating business inquiries to analytical reports.
• Build robust operational and business metrics and make them highly visual and consumable across the workplace.
• Work with cross-functional teams, systems, and vendor data to build reporting systems and utilize metrics to find strong improvement opportunities.

The Business Analyst Interview

The Amazon interview process is extremely consistent across the different teams. Once your resume is shortlisted, the interview starts with a recruiter screening or phone screen with a hiring manager. Then if selected in those initial rounds, you are invited for an interview loop of around 4–5 interviews in the same day. All of the interviews are based on Amazon’s 14 leadership principles to test your competency and may include technical interview questions.

Overall the breakdown in terms of focus in preparation should be mainly on leadership principles, a little bit on database system design, and lastly on actually coding, SQL queries, and product and business cases.

Check out a mock interview of an Amazon business case question.

Based on the level (L3/L4/L5), you will have 4–5 rounds in person. Out of these, there will be a couple of technical rounds and a couple of behavioral rounds. Behavioral rounds will be mostly to judge you on the notorious leadership principles of Amazon.

Amazon Leadership Principles Interview Questions

For Amazon’s leadership behavioral competency interview, the exact phrasing of the question may be different but the central idea remains the same between each leadership principle.

For each leadership principle, remember to craft a story around how you exemplified each one of these principles. For example:

• Customer Obsession: Took customer feedback and learned from their pain points to build a better product or process.
• Dive Deep : Solved a complex problem by diving into the issue head first.
• Bias for Action: Prioritized action and initiative for different projects.
• Ownership A project where you went beyond the original scope.
• Earn Trust:Resolving a conflict between different team members and built a good standing relationship with customers.
• Invent and Simplify:A project where you made a system more efficient.

The interviewer will never state that they’re asking you a leadership principles type question. Yet know exactly how to craft a story that leads to one of the fourteen principles. It’s basically the elephant in the room!

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