I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jul 2013
Interview
Got an employee referral for the job, it was two rounds of phone interview, both of them technical. Unfortunately I thought it was more of a developer type of work, but it turned out to be more or less a picking up the phone and assist their customer type of work.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When you type in www.Amazon.com into your web browser, what happens exactly?
What's the difference between windows and linux?
Your LAN is extremely slow, what are the ways to troubleshoot it?
if your windows normally takes 10 seconds to go from power-up to start-up page, what are some of the problems or ways to troubleshoot if it all the sudden takes 10 minutes?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Initial phone interviews were an hour long and were scheduled within a few days of each other. Final in-person interview was scheduled many weeks out. Interview's focused on technical, personal and interpersonal questions. One of the best things I did was be honest on the things I didn't know. It didn't seem to affect my interview and they appreciated my candor. Overall it was a good experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to start the system config program from the command line.
The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2012
Interview
The company was very flexible in scheduling the interview. I have had 2 rounds of phone interviews. The phone interviews were about everything included in the job description. They asked me about DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP and troubleshooting different servers. They disclose the interview outcome on the same day or the next day itself.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How will you transfer files securely between two remote machines?