I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2014
Interview
The interview process was very causal and comfortable. Basic questions about personal experience and related to the resume were asked. The atmosphere in the office was very causal, everyone was dress business causal (slacks, polos) and it seemed to be very fast pasted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would I deal with the possibility of not meeting a deadline/metrics.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2014
Interview
Was recommended by a friend. Soon after the recommendation, I received an email asking when would be convenient for a phone interview. A few days later, the phone interview occurred and I was asked standard STAR based questions.
About a month later I was invited for an in person interview. It takes place at a fulfillment center. It's a 5hr process. 1hr to tour the facilities and then 4 1hr interviews. The environment is very relaxed. Everyone in polos and jeans. If you wear a suit to this interview, you will be extremely overdressed.
One of those interviews is based on a math flow question. Pretty straight forward but I can see how people can make mistakes on this one. Check online before you go to get a feel for what the question could look like. Also before you arrive, they send you two questions. You have to answer one of them and send in to the recruiter before your interview date. Make sure you think of an answer for the other one and be prepared to talk about it during the interview. Also read over Amazon's leadership principles and be prepared to talk about which ones you align with the most and why.
After all the interviews, they instructed all of us that we would hear back by the next week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What leadership principle did I find most important?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2014
Interview
I applied the position through university recruiting process. There were two rounds of interviews. Two 30 minutes interviews in each round. Because it was on-campus interview, it was really efficient. First round on Monday, second round on Tuesday, and got the offer on Wednesday.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
No really difficult questions but each of the question was drilling very deep. For example, I was asked to elaborated on a statistical model I built up for my former company to predict inventory level. And I was surprised to get the very detailed follow-up questions such as "what were the risks of using this model?" "what were the data sources you used?" "what were the confidence level of the model?." Otherwise, the other questions were fairly common.