I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Mar 2017
Interview
Initial phone screen of 45 minutes going over your resume / background. Describe the company and the team and asked you to complete 3 coding assignments using languages of your choosing during the interview.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Telephone, TX) in Feb 2017
Interview
Made contact with HR, several days later had telephone technical interview. They were clearly wanting a Software Engineer instead of a Data Scientist since my interviewer knew very little about Statistics or data science and only asked me CS questions. My interviewer also spent about 10 minutes discussing politics, which made me very uncomfortable.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a Python function that displays the first n Fibonacci numbers.
2 phone interviews and 1 onsite interview and the onsite interview includes 5 small interviews with different people. Called out of the blue, asked if I'd be interested in interviewing. Still not entirely sure how they got my name. Had first phone interview the next week, asked no personal questions, all technical in nature. Total of 3 phone interviews and an in-person trip out to Seattle.