Amazon interview questions
263 questions for Amazon: 211 reported at Amazon and 52 typical for the role, with the role each was found under.
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- How do you currently measure product success? What metrics do you track?
- Why product management?
- Tell me the technical details of your project. How does this thing work?
- What are some security best practices for integrating Amazon EC2?
- What types of instances are there?
- What's one challenge you may encounter when connecting to an instance, and how can you solve it?
- Why would you apply a buffer in AWS?
- Describe a time when you brought different perspectives together to solve a problem. What types of perspectives were represented? How did you seek them out? What was the outcome? Were there any key learnings from this experience? Knowing what you know now, would you have done anything differently?
- Describe a time when you dealt with multiple sources of data to solve a problem.
- Tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision with incomplete information.
- Tell me about a time when you had to solve a very complex problem with scarce resources.
- Amazon is experiencing a high rate of returns. As a Product Manager, how will you reduce it?
- As a Product Manager, how would you improve customer retention for Amazon?
- Define the roadmap of a feature for leveraging Amazon sales using Facebook.
- Describe a challenging project you managed.
- Describe a situation where you had to make an urgent decision without data. Would you do anything differently now?
- Describe a situation where you were more than halfway through a project and had to pivot quickly because of an unexpected change.
- Describe a strategy to increase Amazon's revenue.
- Describe a system design or product architecture you worked on.
- Describe a time when you took on responsibility for a product area outside your immediate scope because it was the right thing to do.
- Describe a time you had to lead without formal authority. How did you gain buy-in?
- Describe a time you improved a process.
- Describe a time you solved a problem outside your formal scope of work.
- Describe a time you were assigned an unfamiliar task.
- Dive deep into the tech stack.
- Estimate the number of people using AWS per year.
- Estimate the number of reviews posted on Amazon per week?
- Explain a time when you dealt with conflicting stakeholders.
- Explain how a web request is processed from browser to backend.
- Explain how Amazon's recommendation engine picks the products each shopper sees.
- Explain technical concepts relevant to the team you may be joining (e.g., AI/machine learning for an AI-focused role).
- Give an example of a time you created a new metric to measure success.
- Give an example where observation or expertise helped you solve a problem.
- Guesstimate the market share of Amazon Prime.
- Guesstimate the number of per day users at Amazon website.
- How do SQL and NoSQL databases differ from each other? What are the use cases of each?
- How do you handle ambiguity?
- How do you handle project risks?
- How do you manage cross-functional teams?
- How do you prioritize competing demands and projects?
- How will you measure the success of Amazon Fresh?
- How would you ensure the success of Amazon Pharmacy?
- How would you estimate the stock of a product Amazon needs to keep during the lockdown period?
- If you were to change the pricing of Amazon Kindle, how would you go about it?
- If your data team loses all the metrics. What would you do?
- Propose one feature that would improve the experience of using Amazon. Explain which part of Amazon and which use case...
- Tell me about a problem you solved using customer obsession.
- Tell me about a project that did not go as planned. What did you do?
- Tell me about a time you achieved more than expected with limited resources.
- Tell me about a time you directly improved customer satisfaction.
- Tell me about a time you had to make a product decision with incomplete data, but customers were waiting for a solution.
- Tell me about a time you invented or dramatically improved a process, product, or tool.
- Tell me about a time you made a quick decision that significantly impacted the business.
- Tell me about a time you sacrificed short-term results for a long-term win.
- Tell me about a time you used analytics to drive a decision.
- Tell me about a time you worked effectively with incomplete information.
- Tell me about the most complex product or system you have ever had to design.
- Tell me about your proudest professional achievement and what you learned.
- Tell us about yourself.
- What is the most in-depth analysis you've had to perform in order to make a product decision? Specifically, what was the issue, how did you approach it, and how did you know you were focused on the right things?
- What metrics would you track to enhance customer experience at Amazon Pharmacy?
- What should be Amazon's strategy to enter the e-learning market?
- What should be the strategy for Alexa for the coming years?
- Why do you want to work at Amazon?
- Write about something innovative and complex you drove. Show your thinking and your data.
- You are the Product Manager at Amazon Prime Video. You notice a metric dropped by 80%. What will you do?
- A 30-minute technical presentation on a problem you've solved, explaining how you solved it with system design components, with interviewers acting as customers.
- Common areas include load balancing, data encryption, SQL vs. NoSQL trade-offs, multi-AZ and multi-region design, and cost optimization.
- Describe a situation where you faced an unexpected technical crisis during a deployment.
- Describe a situation where you had to balance customer needs with business constraints.
- Describe a time you gave difficult feedback.
- Describe a time you simplified a complex process.
- Describe Amazon Route 53 and CloudTrail. How do the two work together?
- Describe Amazon VPC and talk about the reasons to use it.
- Describe asynchronous encryption type.
- Describe cloud computing and compare two popular Cloud Service Providers.
- Describe cluster computing.
- Describe IAM and talk about its usage.
- Describe Shards.
- Describe the most difficult interaction you've ever had with a customer.
- Describe when you raised the bar for your team.
- Describe when you saw a problem and fixed it without being asked.
- Describe Your Experience with AWS Monitoring, Logging, and Observability Tools.
- Designing a cloud architecture and defending trade-offs in real-time, with the interviewer adding functional and non-functional requirements throughout the round.
- Designing a component verbally, without a diagram, with added requirements as you talk.
- Differentiate between Amazon RDS, Redshift, and DynamoDB.
- Differentiate between block storage and object storage.
- Differentiate between relational vs. non-relational databases.
- Differentiate between scalability and elasticity.
- Differentiate between scripting languages and programming languages.
- Differentiate between SQL vs. NoSQL.
- Differentiate between stateful vs. stateless architecture.
- Differentiate between TCP and UDP.
- Differentiate between virtual machines and containers.
- Explaining core concepts and reasoning about how they behave under load, failure, and scale across networking, storage, databases, security, and disaster recovery.
- Give an example of a goal you didn't meet and how you handled it.
- Give an example of a time when you received harsh negative feedback on a system design you created.
- Give an example of admitting you were wrong.
- Give an example of catching a defect others missed.
- Give an example of sacrificing short-term for long-term results.
- Give an example of when you challenged the status quo.
- Give an example of when you used customer feedback to drive a decision.
- Give me an example of a time when you not only exceeded a goal, but vastly surpassed it.
- How do you ramp up to learn a new space/area in a project?
- In the context of Amazon EC2 security groups, what would the command `ec2-create-group CreateSecurityGroup` do?
- Is it possible to use Amazon S3 with EC2 instances? If so, how?
- Role-play scenario: I am the CFO of a mid-sized financial firm. I want to move our legacy database to the cloud, but I insist on running it on dedicated, fully provisioned static hardware 24/7 to keep costs predictable. Convince me why dynamic scaling and serverless patterns might save us money without risking performance.
- Talk about some of the benefits of AWS's disaster recovery.
- Talk about the type of scenarios where you'd choose Provisioned IOPS over Standard RDS storage.
- Tell me a situation where you did not hit your goal.
- Tell me about a project in which you had to deep dive into analysis.
- Tell me about a project where you had to oversee an implementation from design to delivery.
- Tell me about a situation where you took ownership of a critical issue.
- Tell me about a time a customer asked you to build a solution that violated engineering best practices or security standards. How did you handle declining their request while preserving the relationship?
- Tell me about a time when the deadline given to you for a project was earlier than expected.
- Tell me about a time when you delivered a project that was not up to spec due to tight deadlines.
- Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your team or manager.
- Tell me about a time when you took complete ownership of a project and drove it to completion despite obstacles.
- Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond your job responsibility in order to help the company.
- Tell me about a time you faced a challenging problem, how you approached it, and what impact your solution had.
- Tell me about a time you had a strong disagreement with a technical team lead or manager regarding an architectural design.
- Tell me about a time you had to dive deep into data to solve a problem.
- Tell me about a time you had to make a quick decision without all the data you wanted.
- Tell me about a time you refused to compromise on quality.
- Tell me about a time you took on something outside your responsibility.
- Tell me about a time you went above and beyond for a customer.
- Tell me about an innovative solution you developed.
- Tell me about building trust with a skeptical stakeholder.
- Tell me about the most challenging project you've ever worked on.
- Tell me about the most complex problem you have worked on.
- What brings you to AWS?
- What, according to you, is the value proposition of AWS?
- Whiteboarding an AWS architecture for a complex scenario.
- A client needs a disaster recovery solution with an RTO of 15 minutes. What approach would you recommend?
- Explain EC2 placement groups and when to use each type.
- How do you decide between a monolithic architecture and microservices on AWS?
- How would you design a fault-tolerant architecture on AWS?
- How would you design a highly available web application on AWS?
- Name the Instances types for which the Multi AZ-deployments are available?
- What happens when an EC2 instance fails a health check behind an ALB?
- What is the difference between stopping and terminating an instance?
- What's the difference between On-Demand, Reserved, and Spot instances?
- When is there a need to acquire costs with an EIP?
- A drop in repeat orders occurred, what metrics or data to check first?
- Describe a complex problem that you solved by analyzing data. What did you discover?
- Describe a customer feedback suggestion that you followed through with.
- Describe a time when you had to make an important decision on the spot. What were the results?
- Design a system to track reviews abuse on Amazon.com.
- Do you work well independently?
- Explain the concept and model of AWS to a 14-year-old freshman.
- For this question I want to focus on how you stay connected to the details of a negotiation while focusing on the strategic, bigger picture issues. For the first part of this discussion, just walk me through your framework for how you structure an engagement process.
- Give an example of a time when you failed to reach a deadline.
- How do you develop customer empathy?
- How do you normally do discovery on customer problems?
- How do you run your function from a program-management perspective? So you're creating a bureaucracy?
- How does Amazon Web Services (AWS) work, and how can you utilize it?
- How many people use AWS each year on average?
- How would you calculate how much available space exists inside Amazon warehouses that fall within a hurricane path? What data would you grab? What source would you tell the agents to use? How would you prompt the agents to create some kind of triggering system? How would you keep the available-space data updated in real time?
- How would you determine what shows Amazon can invest in for a TV show?
- How would you improve lunch ordering for DoorDash?
- How would you measure the success of AWS for SMEs?
- Imagine an engineer on your team wasn't meeting expectations. How would you proceed?
- Is launching a new and improved Kindle a good choice?
- Is the customer always right? Do you have an example of when this isn't the case?
- Recall a product whose customer service experience stood out to you for being exceptional. What did they do right?
- Recall a product whose customer service experience stood out to you for being terrible. What did they do wrong?
- Retention versus quarterly revenue tradeoff.
- Talk about a time when you successfully launched a product with a team.
- Tell me about a time when you decided to tackle a problem that was not assigned to you or was outside the scope of your role.
- Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a difficult colleague or member of your team.
- Tell me about a time when you had to prioritize a product feature based on discovering a new customer need.
- Tell me about a time when you handled a difficult stakeholder.
- Tell me about a time when you made short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.
- Tell me about a time when you talked to a customer and learned an interesting insight. Did you change your roadmap? If yes, how?
- Tell me about a time you declined a customer suggestion and why you made that decision.
- Tell me about a time you did something that wasn't technically your job.
- Tell me about a time you earned the trust of a person or group?
- Tell me about a time you failed. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time you had to push back against a stakeholder to do right by a customer.
- Tell me about a time you made a mistake.
- Tell me about customer obsession. Why did you treat your sales team as the customer?
- Tell me about delivering under a tight deadline with limited resources.
- Tell me about yourself.
- What are you doing now?
- What do you want to get out of this job at Amazon?
- What exactly is the Amazon business model, and why does it work?
- What's your favorite product and why?
- Why did you want to apply for this role?
- Describe your most difficult customer and how you handled it.
- How can Amazon reduce churn among Prime subscribers?
- How have you leveraged data to develop a strategy?
- Tell me about a time when a team member wasn't pulling their weight. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with someone at work. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time when you had to leave a task unfinished.
- Tell me about a time when you had to make fast decisions with incomplete or insufficient information.
- Tell me about a time when you took a calculated risk. What was the outcome?
- Tell me about a time where you were able to considerably exceed expectations.
- Tell me about a time you had to handle a crisis.
- Tell me about a time you used innovation to solve a problem.
- Tell me about a time you were able to see around a corner to meet a customer need or delight a customer with a solution or product they didn't know they needed or wanted.
- How do you expand footprint with existing customers or similar businesses in the same industry?
- How do you improve customer ROI and customer experience?
- How do you manage financials for customers over time?
- How do you prioritize your work when dealing with multiple stakeholders at a time (e.g., a VP and a Director asking for tasks)?
- What makes a great engagement manager?
- Describe a time you used customer data to shape or build a product. How did you identify the customer problem, what...?
- Describe and explain the most innovative idea you've had for a product.
- Give an example of any customer feedback recommendation you gave.
- Is there a time when you ran a successful project that didn't have much support?
- Rewind any moment in your career where you find it hard to meet a deadline.
- Tell me about a time when you had to sacrifice a short-term result for long-term strategic reasons.
- If we asked your coworkers to describe you in one word, what would they say?
- What goals would you set for yourself as a professional solutions architect?
- What projects will you start within three months of starting this job as a solutions architect?
- Can you describe a product you successfully launched?
- Describe a challenging project and how you handled it.
- Describe a time when you led a cross-functional team to deliver a successful product launch.
- Describe an innovative solution you came up with to solve a product-related problem. How was it implemented?
- Describe how you'd design a product recommendation engine.
- Describe the architecture of a product you've worked on.
- Explain a technical product you've worked on. What made it technically challenging?
- Explain how you assess market competition for your product.
- How do APIs work? Why are they important in product development?
- How do you estimate timelines for engineering projects?
- How do you handle conflicting priorities?
- How do you handle scope creep?
- How do you handle technical debt in the product backlog?
- How do you prioritize bugs vs. new features?
- How do you work with engineers to define product requirements?
- How do you write user stories for complex technical features?
- How would you design a metrics dashboard for a product?
- How would you handle conflicting situations between engineering direction and business direction?
- Imagine a scenario where a key stakeholder disagrees with your product vision. How would you handle the situation?
- Share the most challenging technical problem you've solved as PM.
- Tell me about a technical decision you influenced without having direct authority.
- Tell me about a time you had to mediate a conflict between two team members. How did you resolve it?
- You discover a new competitor has entered the market with a similar product. What actions would you take to assess and respond to this development?
- Can you explain the difference between a solution architect and a technical architect?
- Describe a time when you had to make trade-offs between different architectural approaches.
- Describe the features of a software architecture you were significantly involved in designing.
- Explain a recent professional achievement.
- How comfortable are you speaking to people about technical topics?
- How do you approach designing a scalable system from scratch?
- How would you go about fixing an operating error you have diagnosed in a system you installed?
- What approach do you take when working with a lot of data?
- What do you consider to be the most innovative solution you have proposed in your role as a senior solutions architect?
- What is AWS?
- What is the role of a solution architect in a software development project?
- What method/s do you use to ensure security?
- What would a day at your ideal job look like?
- Can you describe your experience with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud?
- Describe your experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Explain the CAP Theorem and its implications for distributed systems.
- How do you approach designing a scalable system?
- How do you ensure that your solution architectures are secure?
- What are the core principles of system design that you follow?
- What is your process for gathering and analyzing requirements?
- What strategies do you use for handling scalability in your architecture?
- Do you prefer working as part of a team or do you work better alone?
- How would you characterize your communication style?
- We're about to lose a large client who's complaining about our customer service. How would you approach them to try and change their mind?
- What do you know about our company?
- What made you apply for this engagement manager position?
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