I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2013
Interview
Amazon standard interview process. Google to read articles that describes it in more details.
Phone screen: 1-1 phone screen (one person shadowing the phone screen interviewer but is not always the case). Provides links to collaboration website where you can type code snippets and/or process descriptions/drawings.
Onsite: 5-6 interviewers or more depending on the level and seniority of the role you applied.
Depending on your role certain subset of Amazon leadership principles are picked for you to be reviewed on (Google Amazon leadership principles to get complete list). Each interviewer checks you on 1-2 on these each. In addition to this you get probed with some technical questions for technical roles.
One of the interviewers is a so called bar raiser (google this for more details). This person is normally not in the same org that is hiring for this position and is supposed to give a "unbiased" view of you. They also have specific training for hiring/interviewing and will have veto rights to forbid hiring manager to provide you with an offer. The decision process is normally concluded in a debrief session of the interview loop.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Describe product life cycle with the adjoining processes, milestones and deliverables for each milestone.
If a feature deliverable is falling between two teams and neither of them want to assume ownership and referring to the other team how do you address this?
What is the most common thing you have been criticized for in your professional career? What was the most recent feedback from your current/most recent manager in your performance review?
How do you intend to improve it?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2016
Interview
An in-person info session, two phone screens (one behavioral, one technical) and an all day in-person interview. Some moderate technical questions including whiteboard architecture but primarily selecting from a checklist of behavioral questions to be answered from your experience. "Tell me about a time you..." etc. clearly looking for specific answers that they could align to the leadership principles. Everyone loves the leadership principles. Know the leadership principles, be prepared to spout them at every turn, pretend that they are as important to you as they obviously are to the interviewers. Do not express skepticism of the leadership principles. The leadership principles uber alles. Four legs good, two legs bad, etc etc. The kool-aid is clearly being served at every opportunity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me one thing you learned outside work and explain how it made you a better employee
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2016
Interview
Recruiter call me and filter me with all kinds of questions, then setup a technical phone screen, which I passed, then set up a leadership phone screen. The technical interview was about designing systems. The leadership interview was more about difficult situations and how you would deal with them. Also, how would sell a program to upper management. These are the questions for the leadership screen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Is there anything in the Amazon site that you would like to improve? How would you drive this improvement to completion? how would you influence leaders?