Applied online. Was sent through their new online assessment. It was unlike anything I have done before, so it's worth going into. The first part of the online assessment puts you through a set of real-world scenarios at Amazon. Very interesting. There's no way to prepare for this so just use your best judgement. The second part was a bunch of technical questions. Very similar to what's posted here. I found out later from the recruiter that if you do well enough on the assessment, then you can skip straight to the loop, which somehow I did! So if you get the online assessment, it's worth spending some time brushing up on your technical knowledge before taking it. The Loop: 5 Interviewers. 80% behavioral LP based questions similar to what's been shared here. Only one interviewer went technical and he based it on my background and was pretty laid back. Despite my preparation, I felt like the loop was pretty intense. I really don't think you can over-prepare for this interview! There's already a ton of useful info on here on what to expect in the loop, so I won't go into it here but I wanted to share a couple other useful tips that I hadn't seen shared yet: Checkout Dan Croiter's videos on YouTube. He has a ton of good info on what to expect in Amazon interviews and it was all spot on. Google "How to Interview at Amazon - Leadership David Anderson" - Super great writeup on LinkedIn by a former bar raiser Any advice the recruiters give you, take it! They really want you to succeed and will give you a ton of links to resources. If they send you a video, watch it. If they email you a bunch of links, read them. Read some of Jeff Bezos's shareholder letters. You can find them on the amazon.jobs site. It gives some good context into the thought process behind the Leadership Principles. Ask good questions! This shows that you're genuinely interested in the role and engaged. SA specific advice: In your presentation, make sure you can provide metrics and measurements of the success (or failure) of your project. I didn't do a great job on this and got questions about it. Read the "Cloud Adoption Framework" paper and spend some time on the "Well Architected Framework" - I was able to answer a few questions directly from the knowledge I gained from these.

I applied for a SA position in Tel Aviv, Israel. My name sounded somewhat Israeli, which may have helped me get through to the assessment stage and then a phone (video) interview. However, during the call, the interviewer’s attitude shifted drastically once he realized I wasn’t Jewish. He became noticeably hostile and started asking deliberately trivial and misleading questions, seemingly just to make me stumble.