I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Oct 2020
Interview
There was a lot of primer and work before the interview, as they want to format the interview that aligns with the principals and the responses in the STAR format. The only issue with this is that forces you to add and omit things from your regular dialogue and it takes more practice to organize content and data in a restructured way. As far and the process, it was scheduled and organized very timely. the first interview was using Voice chat and was supposed to be video, but not complaining. There were 2 interviewers, one was silent and I'm sure taking notes, the other was more vocal. Be prepared with the computer science version of architecture, not the cloud linguistics of Azure and AWS, but extra points for mapping your response to AWS services. Know Database , Database read/write patterns, Federation, Routing protocols, tiers web application structure, CDN, CI/CD Blue-Green, RAID and the stuff you would know if you were in a Data Center in 2005
Interview questions [7]
Question 1
what does RAID stand for? yeah sure this interview is cake..
What happens when 2 SQL databases are busy with write and more data comes in? Not sure about that one but know your database R/W patterns and purposes, when you use which noRES vs SQL etc..
2 persons showed up on the second interview, straight from the beginning it was obvious that they don’t want me for so reason, still they dragged for one hour. Then I realised that this is a presale team and they are trying to fish for information about my current company - I work for big 4 bank. Then even though I started to act obviously weird they still kept going. Hilarious. Interviewers great of your current NDA.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX)
Interview
Pretty lengthy process, scheduled multiple calls and made it to one of the final rounds, ultimately turned it down because there were multiple opportunities where the interviewers showed up late and I don't want to work for someone who doesn't respect my time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time when a customer had a difficult problem that you needed to solve, how did you overcome this?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Interview consistent of a 1 hour phone screen over chime, followed by "the loop", which was 4 back-to-back 1 hour interviews. The interviewers were potential team members, the hiring manager, as well as a bar raiser. The questions were a mix of technical questions, as well as "functional" questions based on the leadership principles. Overall, the interviewers were professional but friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions in the phone screen: Explain concepts in networking, databases, data structures, OS
Functional questions on customer obsession, innovation and bias for action.