I applied online. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2017
Interview
I enjoyed the interview. Despite an initial email which suggested there would be a behavioural interview with all the usual links and preparation advice, the actual interview had nothing to do whatsoever with any of the corporate values - it was purely technical and straight to the point, which I thoroughly enjoyed, as it exposed the boundaries of my knowledge and provided me with pointers to future improvement. It also reinforced my hope there are pockets of excellence where you can do proper engineering without much corporate BS. Maybe at some point in the future I will be able to raise up to the expectations :)
Applied online. A recruiter contacted me a few weeks later to set up a phone interview.
After the first phone interview, I was invited to schedule a second. Before that interview was scheduled, the position was filled, but I was invited to continue the process for a position in another city.
After the second phone interview, I was invited to interview in-person.
It was approximately 10 weeks from the time I applied to the final interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Every interview starts with your interviewer saying "I'm going to enter into the application all of the answers you give. I will still be typing after you are finished with your answer, so don't feel like you need to fill in the silence. I'm not trying to be rude, just thorough."
Note: Because of the questions and all of the time they spend typing into their computer, this will feel really rude. It's a lot like having a conversation with a poorly-coded, uninterested chat bot, not like a conversation with a human.
The in-person interview is 6 hours of non-stop questions from several different people. My interviewers ranged from interesting people who had to spend all their time typing (slowly) into their application, to a great technical interview who was the most "human" of anyone else while we talked about the technical aspects of the job, to the last guy who literally said "I haven't looked at your resume beyond your last role. Tell me about the rest" and then interrupted me several times to ramble on about himself. After 6 hours, I was led back to the lobby to show myself out. No one said "bye" or "thanks for coming in." I was at least expecting the hiring manager to come out. Nada.
Two days later, I got a two line email saying I didn't get the job and it is their policy to not share feedback with any candidate.
This was, by far, the worst interview experience I have ever been through. I will give the recruiter her due. She was the most professional person throughout this process, but once I got past that, the interviewers were rude, condescending, and unprofessional.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Herndon, VA) in May 2017
Interview
Applied through employee referral. Got a call from recruiter for a 60 min interview. Spoke to senior cloud architect and mostly technical disucssion. It was mostly centered on scaling of the platforms.