I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2014
Interview
I received call from Amazon internal recruiter out of blue. I don't even remember when and what position I applied. I went to my job portal, seems that the jobs I applied I am not selected. But for a position they looked in their internal database and called me.
Hiring manager called, He did say there are few others in the call. But haven't heard any one or no one asked any questions. Interview had lots n lots of technical questions on Linux, Linux administration, networking, database, web and hadoop. He did say he will ask 20 mins of general questions on linux/java. Next on hadoop. He seem to not know most of the answers for questions he asked. Because when I asked him more questions to understand correctly, he was not sure what to say.
What is iNode on linux. and more details on that
How do you check physical memory on Linux.
How do you copy a local file to HDFS?
What steps happen when a copy from local file to HDFS run?
Explain the steps/channels When user accesses a url via a browser.
What is distributed cache in hadoop?
How do you measure network packet?
If there are no cookies how do you make your application work?
How did you make your application work with out cookies?
How do you make your database work for high number of requests at peak hours?
How do you make a background process run?
How do you optimize database?
How do you know how much memory your java application is taking on Linux?
Tell me about garbage collection programming.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you know how much memory your java application is taking on Linux?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2013
Interview
DevOps wasn't really the job I was looking for, but sounded interesting. There was an Initial 1 hour phone interview. Interviewer asked questions about dealing with difficult decisions in the workplace and general approaches to problem solving. Then we both got on a web site that shared a transcript document with accompanying transcript generated on the web. Several technical questions about structures, etc. were asked. Then I was asked to write a program that dealt (without going into the details) with a 2-dimensional matrix.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Think of a time when you had to make a difficult decision or chose to go against the grain at work. How did you deal with it?