I had my Amazon interview in July and august for the SDET position in Sunnyvale.

Status: 11+ years of QA experience with
Position: SDE 2 (SDET) at Amazon
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Date: August 26, 2019

Technical phone screen (1 hour):

• Behavioral questions
• String and array based question similar to Integer to Roman

2nd Onsite (5 rounds)... 5 - 1 hour interview:

• out of 5, three of the interviews done by the hiring manager, director and the bar riser were 100% focussing on the leadership principles. They asked more towards how good is your ownership skills, frugality, customer focus. The interviewer asked me to specify if the question was asked by any previous interviewers if so., they changed the question. They did not care about repeating same answer as well. Some questions include:
  - How will you handle a defect found on the day before a major public release where Jeff Bezos is going to demostrate to public. How will you fix this ?
  - How to handle a hot fix? Do you take ownership in debugging issue or deligate the task to developers?
  - How will you handle the stress at work, more work less time?
  - Have you taken any initiative or leadership task in the past, if so what?
  - Any challenges with team member as well as technical challenge? How did u handle
• 2 interviews focused on technical QA skills, debugging skils like, how will you debug if Alexa Echo is not responding to your question.
• How wil you handle defect found during hot fix which needs immediate fix.
• How will you test devices like bluetooth keyboard.
• The white board interview consists of a problem similar to finding max number of character in string.

I hired a mock interview coach for my behavioral questions and practiced a lot using STAR format of response. Try to come up with 4-5 stories for dfferent behavioral situations like challenges, initiative, failure, innovative solution etc and respond along with using some of the leadership principle words. Practice a lot of questions and answer in front of mirror, show strong confidence and positive vibe. This will realy help you a lot.

I had my onsite on Monday and wednesday morning I got call from HR that I have been selected. They negotiated offer and sent offer letter in 3-4 business days.

They interviewed me for L6 position, and apparently the bar riser was not happy with my performance so he did not agree to it, so I ended up in getting L5.

Good luck with your prep!