I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2016
Interview
Phone interviews plus one onsite interview. Interviewed with 6 people from a variety of departments. Each was preprogrammed with questions. At the end of the 6 hours they sent in the HR perks who began to take to me about compensation. She told me I made more than the CEO ( no including his stock) and that I would have to be willing to work for about half of what I was making. Their turnover rate is very high but if you make it 2-4 years in you may begin earning enough in stock to make up for th else. Highly suggest experienced people look elsewhere unless all you want is the Amazon name on your resume. The could have saved time and costs by discussing the compensation prior to brining me to Seattle. I wasn't willing to take the reduction and let them know that prior to leaving.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All questions were expected to be answered in a format that is acceptable at Amazon, very unusual. They were looking for an Amazon robot not someone with a brain.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Pittsburgh, PA) in Jan 2017
Interview
Relaxed discussions intermixed with deep, detailed dive into the technical details of the quantitative portions of my internship made for a difficult but rewarding process. They do have completely separate processes for each position they were hiring for, which was time consuming, but allowed me to hone my stories and was overall useful.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (San Luis Obispo, CA) in Jan 2017
Interview
I submitted my resume online for the MBA rotational programs. I periodically checked my status on the Amazon account dashboard and it said "under review" and quickly went to "not selected." I was surprised a few weeks later when I received an email asking me to fill out the online assessment test. I did, yet my dashboard still said "not selected." I didn't hear anything again so I wrote them off. A couple weeks later I received an email from a recruiter saying that they were interested in interviewing me for Senior Program Manager. That wasn't my 1st or 2nd selection but I thought I'd go through the process anyway. The recruiter sent me canned correspondences the whole time and when I asked for a job description, she sent me a very vague description that was labeled Internship. So the day comes for my interview and when I logged on for the virtual interview, my laptop audio wasn't working so I dialed in. I told the interviewer my audio wasn't working and she was impatient saying she didn't have time to deal with that. I held the phone to my ear and I could hear her but she said "Can you do something with your phone so it's not distracting you?" It wasn't, but I put it on speaker. Our connection was choppy and I couldn't hear very well. The interview was supposed to last 30 minutes but she asked me about 4 questions and she jumped to "So, do you have any questions for me?" I knew I wasn't moving on. This woman read questions from a list, didn't listen to my answers and obviously didn't ready my resume. The 2nd interviewer was a little nicer, but he read questions from a list too, didn't listen to my answers and didn't read my resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you worked with ambiguity?
Tell me about a time you encountered barriers and how you overcame them.
Tell me about a time your coworkers were resistant to something you presented.
How do you influence others?