I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2022
Interview
* Phone screen with recruiter
* About a week later: phone interview with one engineer
* About two weeks later: phone interviews with engineers, manager, and bar raiser (five interviews total, spread across two days)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
* Heavy on behavioral questions centered around Amazon leadership principles
* Several situational questions probing knowledge/experience in networking, Linux, system design, and coding
* What's in /proc?
* What happens when you navigate to amazon.com?
* Describe how DNS works.
* Describe how wireless router works at home.
* Troubleshooting exercise when website is unavailable. Describe steps you would take to troubleshoot. There were a few of these.
* Coding exercise: write function to read log file and print basic statistics.
* Coding exercise: given an org chart, write function to return common manager of two employees.
* System design: design a URL shortening service.
Many rounds of technical and non technical interviews with members of various teams. First round is an automated online assessment with two timed coding problems and a work style survey.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Implement a PLC prgram to control a fridge compressor and interior light using three IEC 61131-3 implementation languages (CFC, LD, ST)
interview process in two stages
first stage consists of leetcode easy question, you have to explain all the steps
second stage has 5 interviews, my interview got cancelled after first stage
Recruiter call then online assessment then phone interview then loop. Recruiter was willing to call me in between each step for help. Very heavy on the behavioral aspect. Overall they probably asked me for almost 20 unique experiences
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Python parsing, linux fundamentals, more than 50% of the time was spent on LP
