I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2017
Interview
One informational (coffee) "interview" with hiring manager. Three informational phone calls with people on the team.
Phone interview for technical assessment.
Phone interview for behavioral assessment.
Writing exercise.
Onsite interview in six different sessions. Two sessions were technical while the other 4 were more behavioral and business. All sessions had some focus on Amazon's Leadership Principles as well as customer satisfaction.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Being primarily a behavioral interview the questions were primarily focused on questions where I needed to relay situations I had worked through that demonstrate my abilities and knowledge of the leadership principles.
The technical questions were relatively simple regarding setting up SQL statements, creating joins, thinking critically/technically about challenges in extracting data, etc.
Probably the most difficult technical question was during the phone interview when I had to, off the top of my head, tell the interviewer how to write a SQL statement without being able to type or write it out myself. This was only difficult in that all of it had to happen in my head and it included multiple tables, a sub-query, and a union.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2017
Interview
I had written to almost 150+ recruiters at Amazon asking if there was a right fit for me at the company. After applying to several positions over several months, I finally get a call for this position. Looked glossy from outside, but soon realized it was rotten inside. A recruiter, out of nowhere emails me and asks me to pick a date for a tech interview with their Product Manager. I give him/her a date and I'm hooked up with a Product Manager from my hometown, back from my country. Viola, must be my good karma I thought. The day comes, and I interview. I speak about myself and what I've been doing and I receive an "hmmm, gotcha" reply from the other end. Later I am asked to write a query on the fly. He/she never even bothered to write the query on the Collabedit screenshare tool. While I try to gather my thoughts, the Product Manager kept interrupting me and changed the question itself many a times. I make a few mistakes and he/she tries to bog me down with "do you think this works?" and "is this what I had asked?" kind of comments. Asked why I did not use JOINS, while my query worked right even without using JOINS. I did not sign up for this. A few generic behavioral questions like "Why Amazon", "Why BIE", "What projects had you done that corresponds to the work that you'd be doing as a BIE" later, I ask him/her- How's the work-life balance at Amazon? He/she says *in a not-so-energetic voice* that it is rigorous and not good. I gave up there. I had a bad vibe from the beginning of the interview. I truly believe that the energy from a person/place is important when you are interviewing. After the interview I researched about the position, the company, its work-culture and found that it is terrible. If you want to be treated like dog poo, Amazon is the place.
I am yet to receive the decision of this interview, and I'm less likely to go ahead in the process even if I'm successful.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have a website and you need to report the traffic insights on this website to the Product Manager. Write a SQL query to find the top 10 persons who have visited the website in the last month.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2017
Interview
Applied with employee referral and got a call after 3 months. First round was the phone interview for 45 minutes by one of the team member. 30 min about statistics, 15 min about sql