Applied Online for a position advertised in October 2013. I was contacted by Amazon in the beginning of March 2014 to schedule telephone interview. Telephone interview lasted around 40 minutes and was conducted by Systems Engineer. Questions covered: windows os troubleshooting and networking (how to check ip address, how to promote a DC, how to join a pc to domain, how to query AD for info, troubleshooting scenario); cisco (theoretical questions about OSI model and which device works on what level, routing protocols, IOS commands how to add port to vlan, what is VPN, spanning tree, cdp command) and linux (how to navigate file structure, how to configure and troubleshoot networking, where are the logs and how to get info from them).
I was asked to come for a in person interview and I was meeting 4 people individually for 45 minute sessions. 2 persons were from operations background (operations manager and regional operations manager) and two It (IT manager and regional IT manager) The sessions were more of a "get the feeling of the person" and only IT manager (not from the Polish site) was asking technical questions. He went deep into the IOS and network design (switch stacking, spanning tree protocol, routing protocols IOS commands) Operations guy wanted me to describe how i would implement a change on the shop flop of a fulfilment centre.
I was told i would be hearing from Amazon within 2 weeks. After 2 weeks a lady called me to walk me through my interview process for junior IT. I told her that I have already conducted interviews and she apologized for an apparent "error in the system" Than she asked me how much i would like to earn (even though she called me with regards to another position) I told her 9k gross PLN. She told me someone would contact me with feedback regarding my application. Next day i got an online survey regarding my interview experience and that was the last thing i heard from Amazon. The posicion was since then advertised again so I assume I did not get the job. The lack of feedback was suprising to me I would expect Amazon to be more serious.
TL;DR:
+ no HR BS you talk only with tech people
+ interesting questions and interviewers know what are they talking about
- the length of the process
- absolutely no feedback
