In my younger days I interviewed with them twice, but every aspect of the hiring process was so protracted that I ended up accepting jobs with other companies i

In my younger days I interviewed with them twice, but every aspect of the hiring process was so protracted that I ended up accepting jobs with other companies instead. Inevitably, several days after I had started at the new company I would get a phone call from Amazon to schedule the next round of interviews. This was before they were as desperate as they are today, but even then the questions were hardly brutal. Here in Seattle the reputation most often associated with them is "sweatshop". This isn't universally true, of course--some teams are better than others--but just about everyone I know who works there always tells me, "Thankfully I work on a good team. I wouldn't want to be one of the guys working on XYZ, though. Those guys are chained to their desks." The people who had negative feedback about their own team didn't work for them anymore, of course. Anyway, churn and burn. Bring on the H-1Bs!