I was contacted by the recruiter that set up the first technical interview for me. The recruiter told me that the interview was going to be really depth technical questions rather than behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the difference between TCP and UDP? Difference between SQL vs NoSQL and their use cases? Difference between Authorization and Authentication and provide example in each? What is a load balancer and how does it work? What is the Network Load Balancer vs Application Load Balancer? how do you design a performant architecture if you have web server, and database? Difference between Stateful and Stateless and why do we need to use both in the same infrastructure? What is SSL and how does it work? Difference between router and switches? What is CI/CD and how does it work? Difference between Security and Compliance? How does SSO (Single Sign On) works? What is federal identity? What is data compression and how does it work? What is Data Deduplication and how does it work? What is RAID? What is VPN and how does it work? What is firewall and how does it work? What is MPLS?
2 persons showed up on the second interview, straight from the beginning it was obvious that they don’t want me for so reason, still they dragged for one hour. Then I realised that this is a presale team and they are trying to fish for information about my current company - I work for big 4 bank. Then even though I started to act obviously weird they still kept going. Hilarious. Interviewers great of your current NDA.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX)
Interview
Pretty lengthy process, scheduled multiple calls and made it to one of the final rounds, ultimately turned it down because there were multiple opportunities where the interviewers showed up late and I don't want to work for someone who doesn't respect my time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time when a customer had a difficult problem that you needed to solve, how did you overcome this?
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Interview consistent of a 1 hour phone screen over chime, followed by "the loop", which was 4 back-to-back 1 hour interviews. The interviewers were potential team members, the hiring manager, as well as a bar raiser. The questions were a mix of technical questions, as well as "functional" questions based on the leadership principles. Overall, the interviewers were professional but friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions in the phone screen: Explain concepts in networking, databases, data structures, OS
Functional questions on customer obsession, innovation and bias for action.
