I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2020
Interview
I was contacted over LinkedIn, directly by a recruiter from Amazon Web Services for a specific job in Vienna,we scheduled a short pre-detail filter call, with a followup for a technical call.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The first filtering questions were merely technically shallow questions around containers, generic public cloud arguments.
The followup technical call was more about the OSI layers and loadbalancing.
Both quite friendly, the technical one more challenging.
In the end I didn't get to a third round, and unfortunately AWS didn't provide any details why. That kinda left a bad AWS impression around not being able to communicate in the end.
Few rounds of interview, mixed with behavioral and technical questions to showcase you knowledge of building system on aws. They also asked gen ai questions on how you would create these systems
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2026
Interview
You do 4 back to back interview in 1 day. It was exhausting. Besides that really appreciated the recruiter giving out interview prep before it takes place. The good thing is there is no coding round.
The interview process was very challenging and thorough. The questions required deep technical knowledge and problem-solving under pressure. While tough, it was fair and tested real-world skills, communication, and adaptability.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you walk us through a time you solved a complex problem under tight deadlines, and how you balanced technical accuracy with speed?