I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderābād) in Jan 2012
Interview
Applied after seeing the position in job portal. received call from recruiter couple of days laters scheduling one face to face interview.
Post that received call again from same recruiter confirming that i was through to subequent phases of interview and that i need to come down to their office again for 4-6 hours for 3 rounds of face to face interviews. Left the day after going through the f2f intervies. 2 telephonic interviews were scheduled again, post which an offer was made
I experienced 2 categories of interview viz.1) to judge my personality and 2) technical skills.
I would say technical interviews were not very difficult to handle if the candidate has good experience and does not fake around, but peronality test interviews were something which made me sweat.
Other thing which i think amazon wants to check is how you handle stress and thats the reason they conduct so many rounds of interview one after the other that most of the candidates would loose patience and do not something wrong which interviewers want to check in you.
Honestly on couple of occassion i too felt like loosing my temper, but fortunately was able tp control on it.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What are the factors you would consider if you have 2 offers assuming job profile & pay remains same - both from company of equal standards
I applied through university. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Amazon analyst interviews usually have four stages: application, assessment, phone screen, and interview loop. For analyst roles, you should expect SQL, data analysis, business metrics, Excel, visualization tools and Amazon Leadership Principles to be tested heavily.
Grilled me on my previous work experience, have to answer using their leadership principles using scenarios and examples. Took my technical assessment too and finally panel round. I think it's too long for what it is
2 rounds of interviews and 1st stage was all about techincal and 2nd round was about the HR round. Then got HR call. Mostly techincal Skills related questions were asked