I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
Employee referred resume to HR person. HR person emailed to schedule phone interview with member of team. Interviewer called on scheduled day/time for 45min phone interview.
Tips: Amazon wants to see your customer-centric approach to everything - whether pricing or product feature decision-making. They also want to see proactive, initiative-taking, entrepreneurial approach. You have to sound smart, upbeat, and cool. Sense of humor, positive attitude are a must.
People are very smart, friendly, and want you to succeed in interviews because they really want good people. Interviewers are prepared with questions that find out about you and ask intelligent and questions that are appropriately challenging for the position, and don't ask gotcha questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How do you think Amazon may have come up with the $80 fee for the Amazon Prime membership program? - this is a classic pricing question.
Specifically asked about particular job roles and asked to elaborate on things on my resume. For e.g. tell me more about this role and responsibility. What, how, why did you do x, y, or z tasks.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
Interview
Started with questionnaire that I filled in and sent back follow STAR format. Then had a 30 min phone interview with the hiring manage with what are you looking for, what was your best, worst type questions and was invited for an onsite. Met with 8 people in 6 hours with no breaks. Mostly STAR type questions. NO one really seemed happy or excited; they seemed over worked, haggard. They really pushed on why I made decisions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What data did you use to support your decision to cut a product?
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2012
Interview
I was contacted to do two 45 minute back to back interviews. Almost 10% of my school's MBA class was contacted and did the interviews. I was invited for on-site interviews. It was 4 interviews of 45 minutes each. The 3 consisted of situation questions. "If you were the manager of this product what would you do if this happened?" Only 1 of the interviews was conducted by a senior person in the company and had questions such:
-> Tell me which is an ideal culture for you?
-> What do you wanna do now?
-> What is the most important accomplishment?