Amazon Intern Economist Interview Experience — Two BQ plus Causal Inference Rounds, Then Team Match

I interviewed for the Amazon Economist Intern role in 2024.

There were three rounds in total. If you pass the first two you go into the candidate pool, and the third round is team match.

The two interviews have a similar structure: BQ plus technical.

The BQ is just the normal questions: tell them about a time you worked with teammates, tell them about a time you solved a problem through a unique observation. I'd suggest answering with STAR plus the Amazon Leadership Principles. Just prepare normally.

The technical part mostly asks causal inference questions. They give you a case and you have to solve the problem they need solved. It specifically covers propensity score matching, DID, RD, RCT, IV, and so on. My advice is that if you have the spare capacity, try not to answer too fast and describe your thought process more. If you answer too quickly, the interviewer may ask more specific and harder questions, like power calculation for an RCT.

Review suggestions:

1. For BQ, write and practice a lot. Prepare a few small cases that you can reuse with slight modifications each time you answer.
2. For the technical part, focus on understanding the assumptions and the intuition, and on how to make up for a method's shortcomings.