Applied through an Amazon employee. Recruiter was very communicative. Case based interview. From scheduling the interview to reaching to a decision, everything was done in a timely manner with minimal wait. Questions were centered around leadership, decision making and problem solving. Interviewer was professional and friendly. I like Amazon, so will keep looking for future opportunities.
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Questions were not unexpected, but I could have taken more time to think them through.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
ProveRbs interview loop was as expected however being constantly bombarded with trying to think of past failures was way too emphasized versus challenges faced and overcome. I believe that instead of letting the interviwers control the process, taking control and exploring valid areas such as challenges, successes. Or pertinent data geared toward the job. Rather than the "script" on their laptop.
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Question 1
Can you talk about a time that you made an extremely bad career decision?
Think about a time that you made a bad career choice?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Herndon, VA) in Mar 2014
Interview
The recruiter from AWS reached out to me for an initial telephone interview. This was followed by another technical screening within a week. Questions were quite general and scenario based mainly related to managing difficult situations during production outage, etc. I received an email within couple hours that they would like to have another technical phone interview with senior manager. Again the questions ranged from managing a team and different project management scenarios. After going through 3 telephone interviews, got an email after 1 - 2 weeks for on-site (Herndon, VA) interview with AWS team members. This was a 5 and a half hour interview with 6 different people ranging from TPM, Software Development Manager, etc. It sure was quite intense and you really have to know what you are talking about. Overall it was a positive experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw and define a software architecture diagram and explain how would you handle encryption along each transition phase of the data?