Had a recruiter reach out to me via email for a role I never even applied to at Amazon. I was a bit surprised on this, as I never even applied at the role in the email. Signed an NDA, but definitely a terrible process to say the least. The cloud support associate/engineer positions they have open relate to Security, Networking, Windows, Storage, and a bunch of other specialties. My resume specifically relates more to a System Admin/Security role, and they wished for me to take an assessment test on Networking. The recruiter was a bit all over the place, wanting me to take the assessment ASAP, even though the original email stated I had 1 week to take the exam. I had other commitments and plans to take care of at the time, and I couldn't just drop everything and take their assessment. It seemed the technical part of the assessment I failed. I felt confident on the rest of the questions AWS was looking for. I was disappointed with their lack of reading my resume and concerns. The recruiter definitely did not follow the 14 leadership principles that Amazon talks so highly of.

Unexpectedly, I received an email from a hiring recruiter offering me the opportunity. I live in Brazil and they even offered, relocation support and visa. She asked me about my availability for a phone interview within two weeks. I said it would be available the following week. I got a call the same day, just for a first contact, that's when we confirmed the technical interview. My difficulty was English and I believe I was not selected for it. 29/5000 The interview took around 50 minutes and the issues themselves are easy, DNS, DHCP, HTTP...