I am applying for a Senior Financial Analyst role at Amazon. I was sent an online assessment which I can take over the next week. It is an hour long. Can someone please tell me what to expect? How would you go about prepping?

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The assessment is mostly behavioral. You get various scenarios and are asked to pick a choice. For example, how to respond to an email given a scenario or what metric is best to consider in measuring Amazon truck delivery efficiency. The biggest determiner as to whether you’ll get a job is if you have sql knowledge and if you already have some experience analyzing financial data. It’s highly unlikely you’ll do bad on the assessment. Work on putting together your experience using the star method.

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Congrats! I’d recommend being able to come up with examples of using sql to cleanse operational data and merging it with financial data to garner more insight. But otherwise study sql as much as you can. Not sure if there will be an additional round after your first interview where they’ll dive into technicals. Your first interview is pretty basic. They’ll ask you about a time when you had trouble and how you overcame it or a time when you had to analyze data. Your response just needs to be formulated using star.

Imagine Jeff Bezos in your head for the hour

OP - how is the interview going? I am going to apply similar position at Amazon. Any tips? Thank you.

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