I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2021
Interview
A week after applying to the position, I received an automated e-mail saying that I was invited for a phone interview. This automated e-mail had no information about the interview process, or any information in general.
I specifically e-mailed the recruiter that had the contact information in the invitation, and asked for the content of the first interview. I was told that the first interview would be about the Leadership Principles and I should focus on preparing for those.
Even though I explicitly asked the content of the first interview, and was told that it would be based on the Leadership principles; they did a technical interview with me. The interviewer even insisted that the information I had about the process is wrong.
So to sum up; I was never directly contacted by a recruiter, I was given completely wrong information about the process when I asked, and my interviewer had no clue about the hiring process and did a technical interview even though I was expecting a behavioral interview.
I was not even contacted after the interview, and they didn't even reply to the email I sent after the interview in order to ask for clarifications. They really do not consider the applicants as human beings that spend a lot of their free time preparing for this, and they treat them like garbage.
I now see that all the similar reviews of Amazon's interview process in Glassdoor are incredibly accurate; and I will never lose time with this company ever again.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The interviewer spent most of the time on computer networking questions, even though the position I applied to is not strongly correlated with networking knowledge.
I had a lengthy phone interview and was told I would hear back that day or the next for a followup. I never heard back. I'm fine with them not being interested, but they shouldn't set an expectation of being contacted if they aren't going to follow through.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
This was a first interview. They asked the standard first interview questions.
The second round was a virtual interview with an engineer who gave a dynamic programming problem for me to work on. I didn't do the problem right. I received reject letter the day after.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
dynamic programming problem - can't remember what it was