I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Sydney) in Jan 2017
Interview
AWS recruiter approached me through an email , and asked if I am interested on this position I replied yes , then he replied back to have initial call through Skype , it is done and it was around half an hour , it was type of screening and I showed my interest so, he arranged a technical interview with one of the team , this was on during two weeks almost. it was technical interview and personal interview , the next day they sent me an email saying that sorry you were not successfully on the interview.
It was a 4 round loop. The first two rounds focused on networking and troubleshooting, plus questions about your domain. The last two rounds are just answering questions using leadership principles in STAR format.
The interview was smooth. Recruiter reached out with an invitation to an online assessment, then a phone interview 1 hour and interview loop scheduled after that. It had 4 rounds
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Depends on the domain of the role. I had Networking domain, so most questions were on Linux and troubleshooting.
It was difficult , questions about os and computer network and one easy coding question , the coding question was prime number question, also asked behavioural questions which are to be answered in STAR format