I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Los Angeles, CA) in Dec 2015
Interview
Within a few days of applying online I was informed that they would like to schedule a telephone interview; it took a couple of weeks to arrange due to it being in late December.
I was called promptly at the agreed time and the interviewer took a few minutes to introduce himself and get to know me. He was very professional and personable.
There was a simple math flow problem with follow ups, the other questions were all "tell me a time when..."
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when you overcame a significant challenge to achieve an operational goal.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Milwaukee, WI) in Dec 2015
Interview
There are many steps. First, I submitted my resume to Amazon via my college's hiring website. Then, an Amazon recruiter contacted me saying they liked my resume. They had me take a culture fit survey. Then, I was contacted to do a 30 minute phone interview. They do two math problems in the phone interview. I got 1/2 correct - I made a small error on the first one. They care more about your logic and if you can explain why you did something, rather than if you got it correct.
Next, I was contacted to do an in-person interview. They flew me to Wisconsin, set up my flight, rental car, and hotel. Some people said they received an e-mail saying that Amazon would pay for up to $60 for food and other expenses (I did not receive this e-mail). Kinda bummed about that, but no big deal. Made it to the interview. There was about 10 other people there. They took us all into a room and gave us a math flow problem to work out. Gave us about ten minutes. After this problem, I was taken into a one-on-one interview with an ops manager and I had to tell him what my answer was and how I got it. Once again, I got the problem wrong but he made me realize where I had messed up and I had to correct it and re-do it in front of him. Thankfully, I got it correct.
Then he had me role-play a scenario about how I would work with employees being late/issues.
Then, I had one more one-on-one interview. Each of these were about 30 minutes. This interview was more of the STAR method
I flew back home and two days later I had my offer letter e-mailed to me.
**I say the process took so long below only because the recruiter and I had trouble finding a time for me to fly out to do the in-person interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time that you had to think outside the box to come up with a solution for a customer//for a project?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2015
Interview
There was a math problem, and then two separate interviews on the same day. It lasted for about 2.5 hours. The first interview involved explaining your thought process for the math problem. The second interview was more traditional (i.e. asking about previous experience, etc.) Once I applied, I was told I had an interview several days later. After my interview, I got my results less than 4 days later. Overall, a very quick process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Explain a time that you had to lead difficult people.