I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Pune) in Apr 2014
Interview
I had passed my resume to one of my friend in amazon, with no hopes that I will get the call. But after 2 weeks I saw one mail from recruiter that they had tried reaching via my cell number but it was't working. I replied them with new number on mail. in a min or two I got call asking if I am available for interview on next day. venue was Sun N San Hotel Pune. As of now I am not sure if I have cleared the round, since this was just first round
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
there were not much difficult questions
- delete files which are 30 days older
- How to check how much space certain process has occupied in memory
- if host is slow, what you will check
- what is shared memory
- what is IPC and its types
- how to run a script on remote host
- there is file with random alphabets on individual lines, calculate frequency of each alphabet (optimal way)
- there is file of 2GB something.gz you have to unzip it but host will not allow files more than 2GB, how will you extract this file in 5 parts
- there is table called teamA, which a colom of team names, write a query to create cricket schedule among these teams
- how to calculate how much space occupied by home directory
- how to run a script on remote server without copying script to that host
- write a script which takes input N, and returns true or false depending on below conditions
N=4
1-2-3+4=0
if any combination of + and - is giving zero then script should return TRUE.
- there is file which has customer records in below form
<Customer ID> <Current Plan> <History plan1> <History Plan 2> .. <History Plan N>
where Plan can be A,B,C
How to get all customers who are using plan C as current plan and in history they have used the same plan sometime back.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Nov 2012
Interview
Aftwre a couple of mail with the HR person we scheduled a technical phone interview.
I had two technical 1h phone interview with two different people. The first one was harder but I answered to most of the questions. They asked questions like describing how does a TCP connection work, describing load balancing algorithms, advantages and disadvantages of load balancing, differences between RAID 0-1-5-10, which commands are used in Linux to troubleshoot network problems, Subnetting.
The interviews were nice and the conversation was also fine. The time between the two phone interviews was 2 weeks. A day after the second phone interview I received an email saying that I was not selected.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me questions abount commands used in Windows Server system administration even if the position was on Linux
