Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Web Services overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Web Services as a Engineer according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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This internship sounds heavily focused on the physical infrastructure side of data centres — essentially the systems that keep servers powered, cooled, and operational 24/7. It aligns strongly with electrical, mechanical, and energy systems engineering.
Here’s what each part likely means:
Critical power systems
High-reliability electrical systems that ensure data centres never lose power.
Includes:
UPS systems
PDUs
Backup generators
Switchgear
Transformers
Protection coordination
Power distribution and redundancy (N+1, 2N architectures)
the interview process is fluid and is designed for you to succeed. you will be asked a bunch of tell me about a time... questions that you will answer with the STAR method. Some interviews will have a technical part as well.
I prepped for weeks — LeetCode hard problems, system design diagrams, behavioral stories mapped to every Leadership Principle. The loop was five rounds, back-to-back. They asked me to design a URL shortener, then 'Tell me about a time you failed.' I gave it everything. Now I wait. The bar raiser decides.