I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Technical assessment in networks and linux
Followed by 2 technical interviews
Then 2 management interviews in leadership principles
DNS
Tcp/udp
Https
Troubleshooting a slow host
Tell me how you can make a web page
Database acid
Database lock types
The interview was good. 2 rounds technical, 2 manager and last round was people's manager.
Bu Amazon sent regret mail with no feedback or justification. It was like wastage of time and efforts if they have already decided whom they jave to hire.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2021
Interview
The interview was very thorough. There are two interviews. A 40-60min call with an engineer basically just verifying your skills as indicated on your CV. Then there is another 5 hour long interview with verious engineers and managers. This has a total of 40 minutes breaks between the interviews. You interact with the various guys asking technical questions and some questions around the AWS principles and how you may have applied them before
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I can't remember the exact questions but they were mainly around Linux systems administration, Networking protocols, Oracle database administration and Data warehousing.
1. Explain what happens in the ETL process
2. What is a staging area and why do you need it.
3. Basic linux commands (checking logs, ping, tracert, ls, ps, ipcs etc)