Amazon Support Engineer interview questions

I applied online and received an email a week or so later from an Amazon HR person. We setup a phone screen/interview with someone in Seattle (sort of weird because I'm in Texas). I discussed my background, then we jumped into technical questions. The interview was strange though, there were zero questions about troubleshooting methodology or how to handle day to day type of stuff , but instead some sort of a "Technical Trivia" where he asked for a bunch of random port numbers for protocols and questions that amounted to definitions of terms. All things you could look up easily in a real world situation if you couldn't remember one or two of them - and nothing difficult to answer. It felt less like the interviewer was trying to gauge my ability to do the job, and more like he was trying to just run through a sheet of random stuff and grade me on what specific words I answered with and/or how quickly - if that. The questions were actually kind of simple, and I'm sure I answered well enough to warrant an in-person interview, but then again I kind of got the impression throught the call that the interviewer was just going through the motions and didn't want to be doing the interview. I never heard back.

They reached out to me about a job opportunity. I was able to set up an interview pretty quick. Started with a few questions about soft skills, then the rest of the time, about 2/3, was technical questions pertaining to Linux and one coding question. The interviewer was pretty nice about it. There were two questions I didn't know how to answer, but he tried to help me through it to see how much I actually knew.