I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Boekarest, ) in Oct 2018
Interview
Typical Big5 company interview process. Few calls, online automated tests then a 4 hours with 4 people on-site or on recruitment event. Mostly algorithms and Amazon principles.
I'd like to review the after part of the interview, if you get the offer. The offer letter is incorrect stating that you should accept this by the date which is in the past, you notify them, but they say it's okay, leave it. Then when they prepare for you the immigration papers in the last week of moving to Canada, the lawyer will tell you it's not right, then you tell the HR, they don't understand which date and where, when it's clean and not that many dates in a contract. They couldn't change it, you go to the border with invalid data. It's fine.
Multiple HR people get laid off or moved to other departments until you get yourself hired. Multiple managers might exchange you from one team to the other, you won't know where you end up. You have no idea what you will work on. If your visa gets late, your team might move on with someone else.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Boston, MA) in Sep 2019
Interview
1) Standard Amazon Coding Assessment
2) Phone Screen (Because I didn't do great on one coding assessment question)
3) Onsite (3 coding rounds, 1 behavioral, 1 System Design and Lunch). Lunch is not evaluated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lot of behavioral questions on their leadership principles.
Leetcode questions on graphs and arrays during phone and onsite interview.
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru)
Interview
One of the slowest interviews process that I have ever seen. They take forever to come back with the decision.
Internal staff has no coordination, no one is aware of the current state of the interview. They took more than 1 month to take up the rounds, still never came back with an answer. Just a waste of candidates time and effort. Such degradation of the Amazon name.