I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (SanFrancisco) in Jul 2021
Interview
First Round:
First round is online test, which has four sections.section-1 has quantitative aptitude, logical reasoning questions.sections-2 has technical questions related to c, c++, java, dbms, os and networks.section-3 has 2 coding questions.section-4 has technical questions related to bigdata, cloud computing and data science.time given is 2 hours.They shortlisted 41 students out of 450.
Second Round:
Technical round:asked general questions about networking, os and troubleshooting.
1.What are the advantages of having virtual memory?
2.How to trouble shoot windows system which has booting problems?
3.gave one simple code to implement and some general questions
16 students shortlisted for the next round.
Third Round:
Technical round:asked all networking questions.
1.What are the softwares you have used?
2.How to prevent SYN DDoS attack?
3.How to indentify fake IPs?
4.What is the difference b/w private IP and Public IP?
5.questions related OSI and TCP layers
6.Port numbers of different protocols
7.What happens when you type on your browser?
8.questions related to DNS
to clear this round you have to be master in networking.
12 students shortlisted for the next round.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Washington, DC)
Interview
Applied with a referral. Got the OA that week and completed it. Was not able to solve one of the OA questions in there completely. 3 rounds. First round was behavioral. Second round was technical included two leetcode medium problems and last round was system design about designing a messenger app.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design whatsapp and a habit tracker app
Leetcode graph medium question
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
Interview
The overall experience exceeded expectations due to the exceptional attention to detail, consistently professional communication, thoughtful execution, and impressive reliability throughout the entire process. Every aspect was handled efficiently, resulting in a seamless, highly satisfactory outcome that demonstrated both expertise and a strong commitment to quality.
Interview was conducted well. Questions were fair, just wasn't prepared well enough. Brush up on your data structures and basic algorithms. The programming language used doesn't matter. Prepare past experiences stories beforehand so you are ready when asked about an experience.
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