I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2020
Interview
Headhunter reached out to me for NDE job interview at Seattle amazon. It took about 2 weeks to schedule a phone interview. Interview was nice. they dont ask any trivia question, instead he asked me what I have done so far and the asked me question based on designs, like why you chose to use ibgp and not ospf ? etc etc, so thoroughly understand your own design so you can answer those questions. Also Amazon principles are must and they may ask a variation of it, so understand them well and prepare a example for each of that. Also at least have 1 year of good programming language experience before you apply for this role. Just basic understanding of python or ansible won't be suffice.
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or an Amazon/AWS Network Development Engineer (NDE) role, the interview process is usually designed to test three things:
Deep networking knowledge
Problem-solving and design skills
Be prepared to explain:
Network projects you've designed
Biggest outage you've handled
Routing and switching experience
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney) in May 2026
Interview
Asked about the Routing & Switch, BGP, TCP/IP protocols, MSS and MTU
some python Automation related questions and then behavioral questions . The interview was about 75 min long.
Given a BGP IBGP and EBGP topology and path manipulation also about the different attributes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about the automation project that i did in my current role.
Interview was good but lengthy. Mostly about routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS), networking fundamental. Get to know TCP well. Network troubleshooting, automation. All were CCIE level questions. Got the offer.