I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Buenos Aires) in Aug 2013
Interview
Long, exhausting, challenging in some aspects, not in others.
It is not an interview for the average ubuntu linux administrator if you want to get a good salary.
Get your eyes to read and learn enterprise networking and distributed stuff, and vertical and horizontal scaling (and when each is right).
Also, this is no rat lab company from my point of view, they look for people who can take some pressure and can deal with conflict, and they will push it on the interview (ie. ask the same thing 10 times, even in different wording).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Linux file system is not full,is mounted rw and has no errors, permissions are good, but can't write, what is the issue?
It was a 4 round loop. The first two rounds focused on networking and troubleshooting, plus questions about your domain. The last two rounds are just answering questions using leadership principles in STAR format.
The interview was smooth. Recruiter reached out with an invitation to an online assessment, then a phone interview 1 hour and interview loop scheduled after that. It had 4 rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Depends on the domain of the role. I had Networking domain, so most questions were on Linux and troubleshooting.
It was difficult , questions about os and computer network and one easy coding question , the coding question was prime number question, also asked behavioural questions which are to be answered in STAR format