Amazon System Engineer interview questions

Contacted via LinkedIn. Phone chat, followed by 2 hour technical challenge on hacker rank (mix of behavioural and coding questions), and then a 4.5 hour interview session. 4 interviews, each 1:1 with a short break. One linux, one coding, one behavioural / customer-focussed, and one high-level system architecture. Lots of behavioural questions, even in the technical interviews. Relaxed and conversational, very good experience.

I was contacted via LinkedIn for a different position. There was a lot of encouragement to have a phone interview even though I was not that interested and I didn't feel that I was a good fit. As expected I was not technically a good fit but that brought forward the interview for the SE position which also was not what I was looking for. The second phone interview was with two people on a really very poor speaker phone and I struggled to hear them well through the room echo and muffled mic. They focused on an area of my resume which is clearly more than five years in the past asking specific system command questions that I could only vaguely answer. All of my current experience was ignored. I had expressed that I have been in a technical lead / architect role for quite some time but the position seemed to be for a lower level grunt that would follow direction instead of a role that creates direction.