I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Chattanooga, TN) in Jan 2013
Interview
Basic phone interview with the recruiter. If you pass then you move onto the final round of an onsite interview. It lasts about 5 hours and you interview with 4-5 different people within the company. You're given a basic situation essay you have to fill out before the onsite interview, which some of them will cover with you in the interview process. It's actually a very efficient interviewing process and a lot of other companies could take a note from them.
They have a final decision for you within 3 days of your onsite interview. Again, very efficient.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
All the basic situational questions you can think of. You just need to be prepared with you past experience and answer according. It's mostly "when this situation happened......give us an example of what you did in past experience.
Star Method and Leadership Principles. Just study these from the materials they give you, and form a story for each principle, and when they ask questions, you can see which principle they are asking about.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you faced a conflict or disagreement at work and how did you handle it?"
Multiple online tests after application, followed by a virtual interview with various staff. Staff did not want to be on camera and did not have many good things to say about working there.
Prior to even speaking to anyone about a possible interview there was a long and lengthy testing required. Really disappointing to finish with no feedback or additional details. I only received an email post test.