I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Arlington, VA) in May 2025
Interview
The interview process was structured but fair. It started with a phone screen followed by a loop of technical and behavioral interviews. The hiring manager was respectful and gave space to explain my thought process. Questions were mostly scenario-based, focused on security architecture, incident response, and threat modeling. The loop was challenging but manageable if you prepare with STAR stories and know AWS security basics.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: How do you build scalable security controls in CI/CD pipelines without slowing down developers?
Q: Tell me about a time you identified a critical vulnerability others missed — what did you do?
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
