I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (New Brunswick, NJ) in Jan 2022
Interview
Before interviewing I took an online technical exam which was quite easy. This was then followed up by a technical interview. The question were mostly surrounding internet technology, many questions were scenario based.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HTTP status codes, what do they mean, how would you resolve. Where to find logs in certain situations. How to determine what component failed in certain situations. Describe how the internet works, what happens when I make an http request?
Technical interview for a System Software Test & Development / SDET Student position.
The interview included one coding question about string compression, including a short follow-up about doing it in-place with constant extra space.
The second part was a system testing question based on a simple hardware diagram with two systems, a MUX, and Flash memory. I was asked how I would test the system using the given APIs.
There was also a short discussion about locks and shared hardware resources. Overall, the interview was practical and focused on coding, testing approach, and clear explanation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a string, compress it by replacing consecutive repeated characters with the character followed by the number of times it appears consecutively.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Long. Be prepared to answer every "tell me about a time when" question you can think of. Did not seem particularly relevant to the role I was interviewing for (Communications PM). Some interviewers were nice, one was outright hostile.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you challenged the status quo and what the positive outcome was.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Washington, DC)
Interview
Applied with a referral. Got the OA that week and completed it. Was not able to solve one of the OA questions in there completely. 3 rounds. First round was behavioral. Second round was technical included two leetcode medium problems and last round was system design about designing a messenger app.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design whatsapp and a habit tracker app
Leetcode graph medium question