I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2015
Interview
The technical interview is pretty intense! They really put you on the spot and get down and dirty. They want to ensure that you know your stuff, but it is difficult because if you're a hands on person, it can be very difficult to explain how to do something vs. showing them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If a customer didn't do their back-ups as they were advised and now they've lost all their data, what do you do?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Feb 2015
Interview
Recruter contacted me. The porcess took about 2 months. I had 2 phone interviews, first was 45 minutes long, second had 2 parts, each 45 minutes long.
First phone interview began by asking my preference - linux or windows. The questions were basic about Linux, Networking, and protocols - http, DNS, SSL.
Basic knowledge about services and ports they are using (MySQL, DNS, FTP, SSH).
First part of the second interview was about soft skills and in depth questions about Linux, HTTP, SSL.
Second part was about soft skills and Networking, various detail questions about TCP and UDP, network segmenting, routing, DHCP.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney) in Oct 2015
Interview
two phone screening interviews each one for around an hour. Phone call quality was too bad but the interviewer was very decent. asked first what is the strength/weaknesses and then started to ask on the strengths. Then followed by face to face
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is DHCP, BGP, ARP, VPN, IPSEC and DNS. Describe what happen in browser when you hit www.amazon.com, describe what happen when you run trace. differences between UDP and TCP,
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