Initial phone screen round they will ask about networking, linux, hadoop and spark as well as from your resume and experience.
What happens when we type amazon.com?
Explain Hadoop architecture?
Explain Broadcast join?
How does spark work?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked about spark, hadoop and networking questions
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Nairobi) in Nov 2023
Interview
Set of 4 interviews, most questions were behavioral/situational questions.
The overall experience was good. The interviewers were understanding and most of the time the interview turned into a conversation.
The whole process took about two months from the time of application to the last step.
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Aug 2023
Interview
He didn't ask me anything about Linux, DNS, TCP, OCI... Only according to my profile, ask me some big data questions, and even he doesn't understand the big data field. He also mentioned Kafka/zookeeper, brain split. Elasticsearch basic questions
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1.Kafka/zookeeper, brain split 2. Elasticsearch basic questions 3. big data ask some dumb questions, such as fetching data split progress 4. bigdata database layer design