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Network Engineer at Amazon.com
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Aug 2011 – Reviewed Jun 15, 2013 New
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Interview process was very thorough... must have spoken with at least 12 different people.
Original position I applied for was not best suited for me, but they quickly realized other needs I could fill, and redirected me towards those needs, rather than ending the process at that point.
Interview Question – without being too specific, because of NDA, the engineering questions were the type of questions that only someone with a CCIE would most likely be able to answer Answer Question
Reason for Declining – position offered was not the direction I wanted to go professionally.
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No Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Sep 2009 – Reviewed Mar 23, 2010
Interview Details – There was 2 phone interveews. After that the recruiter told me there were not interesting. First phone interveew - very junioer person. Asked me lot of questions about things not written anyvere on my resume. It was boring after while to say - no I dont know. I not think they will call me agein. Recruiter sent email that there will be 2nd interveew. This person ask interesting question. Ask me to design complicated database application. I have no problem. He also ask me trick question I dont know answer to. He was nice - tell me not my fault. At the end recruiter call me and tell me he dont want to call me in for interveew. I dont know what they look for and not find.
Interview Question – how to design database for company like fandango - change movies regularly, have different show times per date etc. Answer Question
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Declined Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Dec 2009 – Reviewed Jan 26, 2010
Interview Details – The interview process consisted of three phone interviews and an all day session of 7 consecutive in-person interviews. The in-person interviews were done by HR, the hiring manager (lunch interview) and five 45 minute technicla inerviews by various team members.
Interview Question – Was asked to priovide an example where the use of IP Selective ACK would be used and why View Answer
Reason for Declining – Base salary was low, and large amounts of travel were involved.
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Declined Offer – Interviewed in Seattle, WA Feb 2007 – Reviewed Feb 25, 2009
Interview Details – Amazon.com has a rigorous interview process. The whole process consisted of 3 phone interviews, where we went over things like path mtu discovery and the tcp state transition diagram. The in-person interview performed onsite in Seattle was rigorous and was partially a panel interview process, and partially one-on-one. The panel consisted of more TCP questions and network management/troubleshooting questions. I got the feeling that they did a lot of TCP debugging.
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- Describe the various transitions encompassed in the TCP state transition diagram. Answer Question
- Describe the path-mtu discovery algorithm. Answer Question
Reason for Declining – Amazon seems like a great company to work for, I declined it because I was interviewing and eventually accepted an offer from another company.
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Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Dublin, Dublin (Ireland) – Reviewed Apr 25, 2013
Interview Details – 2 x phone screens followed by a full day intensive technical onsite.
Interview Question – Everything from BGP/OSPF/MPLS/TCP/STP... Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Ever try getting blood from a stone?
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No Offer – Interviewed in Apr 2009 – Reviewed Aug 5, 2009
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Amazon did an initial phone screen with me some months before - before deciding to ask me to travel to Dublin for a days worth of interviews. I did a number of interviews covering a wide range of issues within the area I'd be working.
Sadly, despite the cost of travelling to Dublin to do the interview and the giving up of a day, the only feedback I got as to why an offer wasn't made was "cultural fit".
Interview Question – How would you design a data centre with 100 cabinets? Answer Question
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