Amazon Software Development Manager interview questions

While the Seattle Times says Amazon is hiring a lot of people, I sure didn't see it in the attitudes of my interviewers. My experience consisted of two phone interviews spread out over almost two months from when I first applied. The first interview consisted of questions about my management experience. Typical questions given to a front line manager (well below my level, but I played along) which included: * Describe a time you had to fire an employee * How many employees have you managed at one time? * How have you helped your employees who have performance issues? The interview was very one way. I never got a clue about the position, environment or if I might fit in. The second interview consisted of a number of technical questions about performance and scaling issues present in their massive web server farm. While I have no experience in this, and was very up front about that, the questioning continued. The interviewer let me know that this is the Most Difficult Problem in all of computing history, and only those who are dedicated to solving it could be considered worthy of Amazon. Now I like my devs to have pride in what they do, but this was arrogant and turned me off to the Amazon Culture. Two weeks after the second interview, I was sent a very brief form letter from the junior recruiter who had been walking me through the interview process.