I interviewed at Amazon for a product management role in 2010. I also got the whole travel / hotel accommodation thing. A thing that stuck out at me was ego. T

I interviewed at Amazon for a product management role in 2010. I also got the whole travel / hotel accommodation thing. A thing that stuck out at me was ego. There was a lot of ego on the other side of the tables I sat at. I had one guy interviewing me say he had been recruited by the CIA but chose Amazon. It seemed important to him that he tell me how good he was at his job. My lunch interview was totally fine and not awkward. At the end I spoke with a department head who's job was apparently to make sure I wanted to work for the company. I kind of needed work then, so it was a pretty boring end to the day. My understanding was that Amazon was using an interview model style similar to Microsoft's, where you can be 'let go' from the process at any point during the day. If you make it to the 'closer' type person toward the end of the day, then you've done well. I don't know if this is true. Ultimately, I wasn't offered the job, but I did get good closure and apart from some of the personalities I encountered, I was pleased overall with the experience.