2 weeks after employee referral was acknowledged, I was contacted, then my interview was scheduled for a week later. I didn’t technically apply to the position. I prepped intensely for a while going over examples for the leadership principles. Prior to this I passed the cloud practitioner exam which deepened my knowledge of cloud computing and was a great intro to amazon language. After the interview with the hiring manager I heard back positive news hours later. they scheduled me for a second round with the head of the department about a week after my first deep dive phone interview. It lasted for 45mins. The next day I was contacted to schedule the final virtual interview (the loop), which was 2 wks from then. It was a long, intense day where I interviewed with about 7 people.