I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2015
Interview
Technical Phone Interview, lasted about an hour would be given a scenario and asked what I would do to resolve it. Had maybe 4 or 5 of them.
On site interview, lasted about 4 hours with 4 different people of varying backgrounds and positions, one guy was a technical account manager who had been a support engineer years ago. Mainly technical questions some behavioral type questions as well, varied by person.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Customer can't ssh into their machine, what do you do?
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