How I Studied for My Amazon Security Engineer (L4) Interview

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I interviewed with Amazon for a security engineer (L4) role during my 2021 job hunt as a new grad. I received an offer and worked as a security engineer for one year, before switching internally to a software engineer (SWE) role (L4). In this article, I’ll explain how I prepared for my security engineer interview. I won’t be going over the interview format or questions as there’s better resources.

I’ve broken this article up into two sections: technical (security, coding, general computer science (CS) concepts) and behavioral.

Technical 📱

1. Security 🔒

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Glassdoor is an amazing tool to learn about interviews at companies (questions, format, difficulty). I used it to identify, common security questions.

List of questions written by two anonymous Glassdoor users

These two were my main studying lists. Prior to the Amazon interview, I did a cybersecurity research internship for 10 weeks my sophomore summer, where I developed a solid foundation in…