Initially I got contacted by the Amazon recruiter. We had a 30 minutes chat. The position was for a specific team at AWS CodeCommit, so I decided to give it a try. Next interview was with someone from the same group (not the same team), I don’t remember by now if I was asked any technical questions, mostly it was behavioral interview. The recruiter called me the next day saying I nailed the interview and now should prepare for the 5 hours round of interviews. These 5 hours were split into two days upon my request and I had about 4 weeks to prepare for the interviews. Out of the 5 hours interviews 4 were split into 50% behavioral questions based on Amazon leadership principles and 50% coding or problem solving, 1 interview was 100% behavioral questions. All the interviewers were nice, courteous and encouraging. My 2 biggest issues are the following - I understand that Amazon wants people to be compatible with their values and passionate about them, but demanding that a technical person be also a great speaker who can tell numerous (around 15 non repeating ones) great stories from their experience is a little too much in my opinion. Second and biggest negative impression was that after I spent so much time preparing for the stupid leadership principles questions and spent quite grueling 5 hours on the interviews, I wasn’t even given a curtesy of a rejection email, let alone a phone call with some feedback. I figured out that I didn’t pass the interview after nobody contacted me 2 weeks after the interview, but nobody bothered to contact me to let me know for sure. I most likely wouldn’t have accepted the position even if I got the offer, but the aftertaste of the interview process is bitter and it is very unlikely that I will ever consider working for Amazon or AWS again.