I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
The interview process at Amazon is beyond broken. They don't respect candidates schedules/times. I had to reschedule my telephone interview 4 times before it happened. Once the dates were scheduled, they did not handle it very professionally and there was some confusion even on the day of the interview. There is this false sense of entitlement and arrogance by the HR folks. Which is very weird. The interviewers were courteous and nice throughout. The HR experience was completely broken for me.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2012
Interview
Interviewer did not have my resume so it made for a tough phone interview. I felt like the person was not interested at all due to her tone which turned me off from the company.
There were no responses after I tried to contact the phone screen about resume. There was no response.
Tip to management: If you don't treat people like humans when you are interviewing for the company, it will ultimately have a negative impact on sales and perception. I would have a hard time buying products from Amazon after the way I was treated.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2012
Interview
Consisted of interview with the hiring manager (1 day), and then an interview with the Dev Manager (another day). With the Dev Manager, it got pretty technical - he was asking specific coding type questions. With the hiring manager, it was an overview of my past work history and determining what position would be a good fit for me.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Read in a stream of numbers, print out the ones that are repeated an odd number of times.