I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Vancouver, BC) in Oct 2021
Interview
90% interviews with repetitive leadership principles. System design was as if just to keep challengeing the candidate asking to code and write proper correct syntax ! Terrible way to recruit senior leaders !
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2021
Interview
Initial interview with hiring manager followed by virtual onsite interview with 4 interviewers (last interviewer was hiring manager). Initial interview was a get-to-know with the hiring manager. Virtual on-site was behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when a project did not go well? What did you do? What were the lessons learnt?
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2021
Interview
1. 1st Phone screen for 1 hr - LP questions, total 7
2. 2nd phone screen on technical areas - Detailed analysis of current project architecture, tradeoffs, API details. Technical explanatory questions on cloud, CDN, Edge servers to public pvt key infra
Day 1
Loop 1 - Bar raiser in first round itself - LP only
Loop 2 - TPM peer - LP and program management
Loop 3 - TPM peer - LP and technical abilities
Day 2
Loop 4 - HM - LP and general chat ( my best experience here, at this point I knew I was getting offer)
Loop 5 - HM peer - LP and System design
All 7 interview results were - strong inclined. Incredible in recruiter's own words :)
Amazing experience, they treated me well, gave breaks of 5-10 mins between interviews. They will nod and acknowledge to indicate you are on right direction
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Paying back to the community by listing questions not seen else where on Glassdoor. All LP questions are listed across multiple sites already.
1. System Design bookseller system like Goodreads, which shows Amazon book reviews on their site (login, registration were out of scope) book search, book details, reading reviews, adding reviews were in-scope
2. Cognitive ability in program management - How would you plan to move 100's of willing and unwilling internal users to a new version of your service. (took 15 mins with various cross questions)
3. Why my service not working ? (technical troubleshooting) (took about 20 mins, went deep into routing algo, to load balancer configuration to identifying specific logs in DNS servers, authoritative name servers, root servers, server logs, LB logs, VIPs)