I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2011
Interview
I got interview chance from headhunter, star from Nov, 2010. I take 3 round interview. First was phone from hire manager, then after Chinese spring festival, onsite interview by HR, a senior person at same department, hire manager, 1 bar raiser, another manager of related department. Each interviewee have 45 minutes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The hire manager asked if i was good at numbers or not. I said yes but didn't have good example to prove it.
The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2012
Interview
The first step was a phone interview completely done in english, to test your language skills. It was not that hard, it involved all those classic questions about your cv,plus some questions about the ecommerce market, and which direction was taking according to you. The second interview was 1:1, and it followed a rotational scheme, involving 5 different senior managers. That means, you had to talk for 30 min with one senior, and then switch with the next one, while the previous went to interview the other candidates. It took 4 hours and half. The interviews involved personality questions and attitude skills.
The whole process was terrible, since you had to say the story of your life over 5 times in a row, not to mention that you could be really stressed and tired after the second job interview already.
Plus some of the interviewees were really rude and didn't pay attention of what you were saying.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why do you think amazon is the best retailer website in the ecommerce market?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Milan) in Mar 2012
Interview
After applying to the job posting I received their request for a first round phone interview. I talked with an employee that was working in the same role. He was very friendly and asked me about my working back ground trying to find points of contacts with the position I was applying for. Then he described the caracterisitics of his job highligting pros and cons.
It took less than one hour to go through all the the interview questions.
Some days later I received an e-mail in order to arrange a second phone interview with an HR manager and an Executive.