I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2015
Interview
5 successive 45 minute 1 on 1 interviews where they start off with 1-2 personality/story questions, do 1 whiteboard coding problem, and then give you 2-5 minutes to ask your own questions. They send you a link to a "what to expect during your Amazon.com interview" video that's spot on.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
"tell me about a time you failed, what did you learn?"
"tell me about your most difficult success, what techniques did you use to succeed?"
"tell me about a time you had an interpersonal problem, how did you resolve it?"
All technical questions were problem solving based on basic algorithms and data structures (they prepare you with a list in the "what to expect" video.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Started off with a referral from a friend working at Amazon. A few days later, I was given a short phone screen and then an online assessment with some coding and some personality questions.
A week after that, my recruiter reached out and asked for dates that I was available for an onsite. The booking company took care of hotel and airfare.
Onsite, I waited with a group of other interviewees and we were all given lunch and then went into separate rooms for individual interviews. There were 3-4 interviewers who asked about what I've done and then asked a technical interview question. The interviewers are helpful and they want you to succeed as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Graph traversal, linked lists, other stuff from Cracking the Coding Interview
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2015
Interview
I got a referral from a friend. The first step was an online assessment, including two coding questions and some logical tests. Several days later there was the work style and personality test. After that I was invited for an onsite interview. We had some pizzas first. The interviewers were there too and we had a little chat. Then there were 4 rounds of 1-on-1 interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Common behavioral & algorithm questions, running length encoding, word ladder, create binary tree structure from mathematical expression and calculate the result, etc.