The interview consists of five interview rounds. It can be completed in one day or split across two days. The interviewers are engaged, attentive, and genuinely interested in understanding your experience, skills, and problem solving approach.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you handled difficult conversation at work
First meeting with recruiter collected all information. then meeting scheduled with Hiring Manager: Asked questions from the job description but it was vague in which domain they were looking for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Experience in Threat Detection and Application Security
It's been described that I will have secure code review task and threat modelling related tasks on the technical interview, followed by Amazon's leadership principles and the star method regarding past experiences.
Online Assessment — likely a technical assessment testing security/coding fundamentals
Phone Screening — an initial conversation, probably with a recruiter or hiring manager
Loop — the full set of one-on-one interviews combining behavioral (Leadership Principles/STAR method) and technical questions
Security Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Security Engineer roles take an average of 25 days to get hired, when considering 68 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Security Engineer according to 68 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 28%
One on one interview: 20%
Skills test: 13%
Group panel interview: 12%
Presentation: 9%
Personality test: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 2%
Background check: 1%
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