I applied through an employee referral. The process os well known process: 1st phone screen, then if passed you go on the "on-sites". It took 2 weeks to get to the phone screen.
The interviewer (HM) was open and clear, no issues there.
The issue are the recruiters. In my case there was not a fit after the phone interview. The recruiter did not communicate for a week. When I sent a follow-up e-mail, the only thing the recruiter did was change the status in the jobs portal. Not a reply, not a phone call. If that is any reflection of how it is to work at Amazon, I guess I dodged a bullet. Intense is all right, disrespectful is not.