I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Hasbrouck Heights, NJ) in Apr 2017
Interview
You get an email with a contigent offer, and an invite to one of their local Hiring Events. You schedule that online.
I got there, and you sign in. They give you a schedule sheet and drug test kit. Then they send you to another table to take your employee badge photo. Then you wait for a bit. Our wait was about 10 minutes. They brought us into a small conference room, and we began to choose our schedules.
The schedule is 5 days a week, 4 hours a day. They had times ranging from 11:30am- til like 3am or so. They were in military time, but fortunately they had a conversion time list on showing on the wall.
The guy then had us do our drug test. There we are, 25 people sitting there with swabs in our mouths for 5 minutes lol. After that was done, he said a few closing words about when we should hear from them, check your email up to 3x a day, etc. And that the job started in early June. And then we left. The whole thing took like 40 minutes.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Commerce, CA) in Nov 2016
Interview
I applied early October and received an offer mid November which was a total waste of time since I intended to earn extra money for Christmas and to earn money for college supplies and did not get hired since I pulled my application in late January. They informed me that, if hired, my contract could be anywhere between a day and about 3 months but if we made 3 mistakes, we would be layed off. Also, if employees did great jobs, they would be hired full-time but those occasions were rare. This truly explained how they could hire masses at a time-- contracts are very short!
After receiving an offer, I was told to make an appointment for a 1- hour 'hiring event' that took place in some hotel conference room that did not have any signs leading up to it. In the hiring event, we chose our preferred shift, watched a powerpoint about things any one with common sense already knew, and took a drug test by a mouth swab. The drug test took less than a week to arrive with the results which was a bit odd considering they claimed it would take 2 weeks or more, there were a lot of us, and the drug test facility was located in Florida. It really made me question the legitimacy of the tests.
Anyway, the next step was to schedule an in-person appointment to verify indentities. I live in Commerce. However the closest location I could schedule an appointment was in Glendale!! I had neither a car nor money to get there so I was forced to take a 2-hour bus ride in two buses. That day, I departed from my house around 1 pm and got home almost at 7 pm just to show some guy my social sec card and an ID in a hidden location that I had trouble finding. From there, 3 months passed and I was still unemployed.
The whole process took about 4 months and A TON of their weekly emails stating I was still in the running and how I was 'not forgotten.' All of these emails were, oddly, automatically sent directly to my Spam folder.
I definitely do not recommend applying nor working at an Amazon warehouse considering the long process and harsh conditions many employees seem to experience.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Chicago, IL) in Dec 2016
Interview
No formal interview, but an online assessment was required after job application was submitted. The questions were an attempt to identify your attitudes, personality, priorities, and how you would work with others. If they felt your experience and answers to the assessment were a good fit, you would be hired immediately without further interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were commended on a job well done, would you take credit for it entirely or deny your efforts and give credit to the team members who helped you along the way instead?