Good, straightforward, used glassdoor to prepare for the questions. Included take home assessment and 4 rounds of interviews with different level of roles. Was able to ask questions, interviewers were friendly and welcoming
You have 4 stages as described on Amazon website, prepare yourself for the loop and learn Amazon's leadership principles, another tip is to search for content on YouTube there are plenty of videos and people that share great tips
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
From the loop- tell me about a new project that you did
Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon Web Services (Tokio) en oct 2024
Entrevista
# AWS Japan Interview Process Summary
## Application Process Overview
1. **Document Screening**
- Application through job site
- Registration on Amazon Jobs website
2. **Technical Assessment**
- Server knowledge
- Database knowledge
- Programming skills
- Initial knowledge screening followed by practical test
3. **Pre-Interview Assignment**
- Design AWS service architecture based on given requirements
- Create presentation materials
- Must be submitted 2 days before the first interview
4. **First Interview**
- Technical focus
- Presentation of pre-interview assignment (5 minutes)
- Deep dive into architectural decisions
- Questions about technical assessment submission
5. **Final (Loop) Interview**
- Series of 1-hour interviews (typically 4 rounds)
- Each interviewer focuses on 2 Leadership Principles
- Behavioral interview technique
## Technical Assessment Details
- Challenging for those with only infrastructure experience
- Programming knowledge is essential
- Be prepared to explain why you chose specific approaches and programming languages
- Environment may have technical issues - perseverance required
## First Interview Focus Areas
Questions typically cover:
- Weak points in the proposed architecture when scaled
- Availability considerations
- Security risks and mitigations
- Service vulnerabilities
- Programming language choices
- Alternative approaches
## Amazon Leadership Principles (OLP)
Key principles most commonly assessed:
- Customer Obsession
- Ownership
- Dive Deep (especially for support engineering roles)
The interviewer expects candidates to respond using the STAR method:
- Situation
- Task
- Action
- Result
## Advice for Candidates
- Do all coding work yourself
- Research unfamiliar technologies
- Consider the reasoning behind your architectural decisions
- Schedule adequate preparation time between stages
- When unsure, provide conceptual answers rather than saying "I don't know"
- Non-programmers should study programming basics
- Prepare specific examples that demonstrate Leadership Principles
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Weak points in the proposed architecture when scaled
Availability considerations
Security risks and mitigations
Service vulnerabilities
Programming language choices
Alternative approaches
