I applied online. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2017
Interview
Pretty straightforward. I've looked Glassdoor reviews and found out all were negative, then I realized that after getting the job no one will care to fill this form and submit their experience, provided that you sign an NDA as well, however people who had bad experiences always want to share them, so I'm here sharing my good experience to make a bit of balance and unbias the comments here.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You accidentally entered: cd /bin; chmod 644 chmod, how can you fix it
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, WA) in Dec 2017
Interview
A phone interview. The HR reach out to me by email at first asking me the availability when to make the phone interview. After confirmed, a member of the team call me to begin this interview. Interviewer is very nice, and processing it with fun
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Describe a project?
Q: Given a log with specified format, ask you to write a script to find the ip which accessed accumulatively biggest size
Q: Some basic tools in Linux you used?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2017
Interview
1st stage phone screening: +1h of technically oriented interview with shared coding/text space on colabedit
2nd stage onsite: a whole day of in depth interviews with multiple employees, mainly engineers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Not gonna break the NDA, but few points that I think may help:
- once you're thru to the onsite, revise and refresh your knowledge. across the board, make sure you can comfortable refer to your career and experience.
- get a good night sleep, especially if they fly you in! No redbulls and obsessing overnight, it's too late at this stage...
- know what you're talking about! this is very important and helps if you're actually good at what you do.
- pay attention thru the interviewing process, listen and think!
- relax, well try to relax. Amazon has very high standards and the interview process is difficult!
- do not overdose on caffeine! Recommended amount of caffeine is usually 400 mg per day for healthy adults. That's like 2-3 coffees MAX!
Lastly, it can be done! People who interview you sat in "your" chair once... you got this!