The Basic Process: Phone Screen > Online SQL Assessment > Technical Interview > Loop Interview Where the Process Breaks Down: If you've applied to multiple positions, which is highly likely, be ready for confusion. Dozens of recruiters reach out to you and at no point in time is it clear which ones are talking about which positions, and who you should reach out to with questions or for next steps. It seems as though you can be interviewing for multiple positions within the same interview and not even know it. Communication to you about where you stand in the process for any one position is awful. Ghosting is a common practice, as is stringing along candidates when a known internal candidate has been selected.

The interview process at Amazon is quite unique. It is highly structured, with explicitly clear expectations of how they want you to answer questions based around their 14 leadership principles, and even which 'leadership principles' are likely to be asked about in each round of interviews. You have to do a lot of homework to be prepared. The last round especially is quite brutal.