Cloud Support Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.2% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Cloud Support Engineer roles take an average of 90 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Cloud Support Engineer according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Phone interview: 50%
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
I had very high expectation about Amazon and was very excited interviewing with them. I had a phone interview which went very well followed by face-to-face interviews. At the on-site interview, I was interviewed by 5 different people. The first two face-to-face interviews were technical and I found the questions rather easy. It seemed to me that the next three people who interviewed me had for mission (to say it gently “F”) “mess with my mind” they insisted in knowing about times when I screwed up projects or let my team down. In the heat of the moment I sincerely couldn’t come up with any. Then they got very personal insisting in knowing personal goals I failed to reach in the past. When I could not come up with any they told me that everybody has some failure in life and kept insisting until I had to tell them something. I found the experience shocking, unprofessional, demeaning, and despicable, but I maintained my cool and kept my smile through this. I promise myself, next time an employer dares to put me through this I will just walk away.
I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Mar 2015
Interview
The first interview was on the phone for about 30 minutes. The interviewer was very ponctual, sympatic and spoke all the time about technical terms and asked me a lot of something.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is default gateway and what is used?
Difference between TCP and UDP?
Describe TCP Handshake?
What is MPU?
What is Packet Handling?
What is NAT?
What is ACL?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin)
Interview
The process was quite slow and it took 3 months. There were two telephone interviews (60 + 120 minutes) mostly technical with three engineers. Be prepared for linux shell and system commands and behavior and a little of networking basics. If you pass both (they are not easy and be sure you are comfortable speaking fluently in English and understanding everything on the phone. Think about a headset for that) then you will be invited to the closest amazon location. Keep the expenses receipts for that, they will refund you later, like your train or flight tickets and/or hotel staying. There were 5 engineers interviews and it last about 5 hours. There are little breaks if you want, but it's really fast fast. It was based around the Amazon principles. Everything was well detailed before by the hr people, even calling you one week before for the preparation to it. 5 people you could LinkedIn one week before. They are absolutely skilled in their sector of activity. It was 1 manager for behavior / action, 1 networking, 1 Linux, 1 architecture, 1 not from the team who was a developer and asked more behavior questions. They try to make you feel comfortable, but the speed does not help.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about one time you did something out of your duties for a client.