Lengthy, exhausting and time consuming with no regards whatsoever for your time. Took them a couple of months to schedule the first phone interview. Then they slept on it for a few weeks where their portal said that this position had actually expired. Then to my surprise they actually came back asking for a full day of back to back meetings to interview and introduce me to their company's culture. What is the best way to introduce someone to a company's culture other than having 5 hours of back to back meetings? They call it the loop, but I have a better name for it. The Gauntlet! I got questioned for 5 hours in an interrogation style with silly questions where they expected me to parrot back their leadership principles while they have showed none of it! Such hypocrisy! I think I could had passed this interview if I didn't maintain my authenticity and just gave them the answers they want to hear. The whole experience felt Orwellian which explains why Amazon is becoming such a Kafkaesque company to work for given the stories I heard in the reviews. I've taken being rejected by their people as a validation! Also it turns out that this role is a mere glorified support engineer who is expected to be a jack of all trades but obviously a master of none!

Applied via referral followed by the standard process: Online Assessment -> Phone Screen -> Virtual Loop. All interviewers were friendly and made the experience positive. Recruiters replied promptly and kept me in the loop.