I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
Interview
Thorough, thoughtful and organized. They cared about your experience and as an interviewee moreso than any company I've ever interviewed with! As an interviewee you also knew where you were at every step of the process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All questions were situation-based versus arbitrary questions.
First round was a typical screening interview with a recruiter; mostly information exchange. Second interview was with the hiring manager and a key member of the team. They asked standard behavioral questions. The problem is that neither were on camera.
If you're interviewing a person to report to you and you're not on camera, you may as well start the interview by saying "I'm not seriously considering you and I don't care about your candidate experience," because that is exactly the message it sends. I would expect AWS (esp. senior managers) to know better, especially given the importance of employer brand. It would have been OK if the recruiter was off camera, but the hiring manager? AWS needs to provide some interview training to its senior people.
I will probably never agree to an interview with AWS, but I will definitely share this negative AWS interviewing experience with my network.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a project you worked on that involved the use of data.