I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2015
Interview
Technical Phone Interview, lasted about an hour would be given a scenario and asked what I would do to resolve it. Had maybe 4 or 5 of them.
On site interview, lasted about 4 hours with 4 different people of varying backgrounds and positions, one guy was a technical account manager who had been a support engineer years ago. Mainly technical questions some behavioral type questions as well, varied by person.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Customer can't ssh into their machine, what do you do?
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Boedapest) in Nov 2015
Interview
Here are their official description of the recruitment process steps:
Telephone Interview (Technical) 30Min
Telephone Interview (Competency/Technical Based) 1.5hours
In-house Interviews (Competency Based) 5/6 hours
I'm currently prepering myself for the second round. I get some materials for review, mostly contains information about the company, its services and most importantly their Leadership principles. I'm not really familiar with it honestly and it's so tireing so I'm still hesitating how to proceed. Old dogs don't do new tricks, you know...
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic Windows questions like DNS, Active Directory, Group Policy, workgroups, Kerberos, NTLM and so on. Then we switched to network, IP address structure, NAT, TCP headers 3-way handshake and the like,expect very basic things in very deep detail.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2016
Interview
I was contacted via Linkedin by a recruiter. Had a successfully phone call with her and went in queue for the technical interview directly with Amazon. It took about one month to be called.
The interview took about 30 minutes with a very kind guy.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were about DNS on Windows OS and in general, Windows' registry, differences between domains and workgroups, linux os that i know, what kernel is, etc folder, boot folder, linux network troubleshooting, processes troubleshooting, differences between udp and tcp protocols, tcp handshake.