Recruiter contacted me for a job penetration testing IoT/SCADA embedded systems. Job required knowledge of C and Python/Ruby. No problem!
An interviewer then called to screen me and spent 50 minutes asking Java development questions. He got extremely frustrated that I didn't know Java. Java is not on my resume, nor did the job requisition ask for it. It later turned out that he didn't even work on the team I was interviewing for.
Colossal waste of time, and quite unprofessional on Amazon's part.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2017
Interview
I had a phone screen first which was an hour long asking about various security questions in depth. Most of them were the standard "what happens when you put google in a browser" variety. I found out a couple days later I was to have an onsite.
One should be excited about working at Amazon or pretend to be excited during the onsite. Given the bad press and multitude of information online I was skeptical about working there and they did not win me over. I felt office politics in the air.
Went to onsite which involved 4 hours of interviews with a lunch hour, being trapped in the same tiny pressure cooker office with white board. The people I interviewed with were great but I had a hard time keeping my face straight with the amazonian questions. Last interview was with the hiring manager but by that point I really didn't care. It was a nice visit to Seattle but the gloomy rainy weather would get to me. I feel like I avoided a bullet.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Take us through a process in which you found a security vulnerability in a product and "owned" the remediation of the vulnerability end to end. (asked 5+ times)
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (State College, PA) in Feb 2017
Interview
Two rounds of face-to-face interview.
First round was technical. Basic cryptography, privacy, OS sec, Pentesting,security tools, projects, certifications, experience etc.
Second was leadership and behavioral round (based on Amazon's 14 leadership principles).