Amazon Systems Development Engineer interview questions

* Heavy on behavioral questions centered around Amazon leadership principles * Several situational questions probing knowledge/experience in networking, Linux, system design, and coding * What's in /proc? * What happens when you navigate to amazon.com? * Describe how DNS works. * Describe how wireless router works at home. * Troubleshooting exercise when website is unavailable. Describe steps you would take to troubleshoot. There were a few of these. * Coding exercise: write function to read log file and print basic statistics. * Coding exercise: given an org chart, write function to return common manager of two employees. * System design: design a URL shortening service.

Did you took a course of action without asking permission to fix some issue that impacted users?