I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2021
Interview
First a tech assessment that you complete at home
Second tech/behavioural interview
If you clear then you have a day scheduled for your interview. The final interview consists of four rounds - 2 behavioural, 1 technical (job profile focussed), another technical more focussed on n/w & system troubleshooting
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
where does the browser save the cache
where does the os save the cache
does router save the cache
how many ips does the subnet of 255.255.255.0
how many of those can be used
where does the nat gateway reside in private and public subnet
your application crashed, what can you check (think system metrics like CPU)
web server is not able to access the server, it can reach the same server in the same VPC, network wise everything looks okay. (think app logs)
how to check historical CPU - HTOP
how to check size of files in a linux directory
what are inodes
what is forward and reverse proxy server
what is DHCP
what happens when you type in browser www.amazon.com
how to update auto scaling group? can it be done without downtime? (think update template template)
how can you have dependencies installed on the 1000 instance (think AMI)
OSI model
describe any 2 layers of the OSI model
which 2 layers are is amazon responsible for
what is blue green deployment? compare with rolling/canary deployment
how does rollback deployment happen in blue/green? how does rollback happen in canary deployment?
customer wants suggestion on how many environments do they need
cust env passes validations in test env but fails in prod
cust env passes validations in all other env but fails in prod
what is continuos integration and continuous delivery
what is the difference between continuous delivery and continous deployment
how do you set up ansible? how does ansible know which hosts to target
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
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Ashburn, VA) in Sep 2025
Interview
There were 4 interview phases. The first one was personality based and generic, the following were all technical with different individuals. It was a standard interview but I’d say you get brownie points for knowing their leadership principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the differences between UDP vs TCP protocols?