I applied in-person. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Phone screen with recruiter
one hour technical interview with member of AWS
Onsite 5 person interview panel
Flown out to Seattle all expenses were taken care of.
Process lasted 3 weeks from start to finish
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
White Board questions- Automation, iBGP, Network Fundamentals
2 personality interviews
or an Amazon/AWS Network Development Engineer (NDE) role, the interview process is usually designed to test three things:
Deep networking knowledge
Problem-solving and design skills
Be prepared to explain:
Network projects you've designed
Biggest outage you've handled
Routing and switching experience
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney) in May 2026
Interview
Asked about the Routing & Switch, BGP, TCP/IP protocols, MSS and MTU
some python Automation related questions and then behavioral questions . The interview was about 75 min long.
Given a BGP IBGP and EBGP topology and path manipulation also about the different attributes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about the automation project that i did in my current role.
Interview was good but lengthy. Mostly about routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, MPLS), networking fundamental. Get to know TCP well. Network troubleshooting, automation. All were CCIE level questions. Got the offer.
