I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2015
Interview
I ran through 2 phone interviews, was referred to a different department, then had a third interview. I was brought on site for 5 in person interviews. All but one of the interviews was technical, while the non technical interview focused on personality and problem solving in a technical context.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give an example of a problem that you could have fixed quickly but poorly that you instead chose to fix correctly but at the cost of missing a deadline.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in May 2015
Interview
I got a call from a recruiter, who gave me a 45 minute informal interview on the phone. Within a week, I went to an in person interview in NYC (4 back-to-back interviews), and within a week after that, I had an offer! I interviewed with 3 teams and got offers for 2 of them. My only real complaint was that I had so little time between the first recruiter call and the interview, I only had a day to prepare.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Signed an NDA, pretty easy questions though. Some OOP, some basic knowledge of big O.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
There was a recruiter hiring for SDE's and posted the same on Linkedin. I contacted her and she said she would forward my resume to the team. It was a complete waste of time because after a week this recruiter emailed me saying they have evaluated my technical exercise and decided not to pursue my application. The mind boggling thing about this is I never received a technical exercise. After failed continuous attempts to get response from this recruiter I decided I will never apply for any jobs in amazon. I know they have a lot of candidates dreaming about getting in, but I will not be one of them
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Was there an interview? I am not sure. The recruiter might have answered the interview questions herself