I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (São Paulo, São Paulo) in Dec 2018
Interview
Applied through Amazon Website for a position in Dublin, was contact by the recruiter a few weeks later asking for schedule for the first phone interview.
The first phone interview was all technical and Amazon Chime (Great audio quality!) was used, a Windows Cloud Support Engineer interviewed me and all the questions were strictly related to Windows services, roles and troubleshooting skills. Some questions were like: "What would you do if the XXXX error message happened?", "What are the types of DNS records?", and so on. This interview had the length of 45 minutes and the questions were non stop!
After a few days I was invited for a second round of interviews, but this time it was on site. On the interview day a lot of interviews were going on. There were 5 rounds of interview with the length is usually 1 hour each with a break after second or third interview. A lot of questions about experience, all of it should be answered using the STAR method, outcomes should be clearly shown. On the technical side, had a lot of questions about networking, Windows and architecture.
The recruiter called 5 working days later with the feedback from the interview. If you get a call don't get excited, they call even if you didn't get an offer.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
General understand of DNS, how a DNS request works, What's ICMP and how it works, Three way handshake, common application that use TCP and UDP (Examples), TLS handshake, RDP port, Active Directory, FSMO Roles, Driver injection, Sysprep, GPOs.
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 Sept 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?