The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2011
Interview
They found my resume online and I quickly got back to them to set up the interview. I had an hour-long phone interview with the hiring manager. It was a pretty easy interview and I thought I did well but who knows? I was sent an e-mail a couple of days later and was asked to fill out an application which I did. A couple of weeks later I received a "thanks but no thanks" e-mail - no idea what happened! I've heard their policy is not to give any feedback though.
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Aug 2011
Interview
Had two phone interviews - behavioral, mini case, all went pretty well and after the 2nd phone interview the interviewer mentioned on site..... but after a few days got rejection email... not happy at all! They need to be more honesty to candidate....
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2011
Interview
Phone interview with recruiter.
Phone interview with hiring manager.
Phone interview with Director.
In-person interview with multiple team members.
The phone interviews were fine. At each stage a different recruiter did the follow-up and the job description changed as well. I attempted to explain to the recruiter that I had applied for a different job, but that was never fixed and by the second job description change, I gave up trying to fix this.
The director was extremely dry. Felt like being interrogated rather than interviewed. Director spent no time trying to explain what would be good about joining the group. Otherwise most of the team was fine, some tough questions, half had good personalities. Definitely did not fit with that Director's approach, so did not want to join that group.