I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2013
Interview
I was initially contacted by an Amazon recruiter who must have found my profile on another job site. The process moved along very quickly, with my longest wait for results being approximately 1 week. I had two phone interviews that were mostly technical questions with a small amount of behavioral questions thrown in. The in-person interviews were more focused on anecdotal evidence of how I have applied Amazon's leadership principles in past jobs. Everyone I spoke with was very pleasant and seemed genuinely interested in what I could bring to the team. All in all, the whole experience was very positive.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I can't give specific questions, but I can say to make sure you study Amazon's leadership principles and have stories ready for each.
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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