I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2017
Interview
Recruiter gave me test via email for position A
Recruiter co-ordinator gave me interview for position A(location :X,Y,Z)
tekephonic interviewer asked me qestions about strongest point and experiance, here is the twist skiped the all my strenth and asked all the questions about rest. Interviewer actually interviewed me for A (Location V). Later found out the there are multiple position with same name but different requirement .
Tried to reach recruiter for few days on phone no reply , Recived rejection after 2 weeks for which I was prepered. cant apply for 6 months.
Did not expected from Cutomer centric Amazon
It was a 4 round loop. The first two rounds focused on networking and troubleshooting, plus questions about your domain. The last two rounds are just answering questions using leadership principles in STAR format.
The interview was smooth. Recruiter reached out with an invitation to an online assessment, then a phone interview 1 hour and interview loop scheduled after that. It had 4 rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Depends on the domain of the role. I had Networking domain, so most questions were on Linux and troubleshooting.
It was difficult , questions about os and computer network and one easy coding question , the coding question was prime number question, also asked behavioural questions which are to be answered in STAR format
Cloud Support Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Cloud Support Engineer roles take an average of 32 days to get hired, when considering 204 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 Cloud Support Engineer according to 204 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 19%
Skills test: 12%
Presentation: 10%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 7%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Drug test: 3%
Other: 2%
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