I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2017
Interview
The process was straightforward:
I applied on-line and was contacted by a recruiter within a few days to schedule an initial screening interview. He reached out again about two weeks later to inform me that the hiring manager was interested in moving forward. We also had a prep call before I spoke with the hiring manager.
The call with the hiring manager was friendly. She asked questions about my background, threw out a few hypothetical situations and "tell me about a time when..." questions.
I worked with a Recruiting Coordinator to schedule the on-site interview. She was prompt and responsive, especially given my time constraints. In her initial email, she sent a questionnaire and legal writing exercise. The questionnaire was straight forward and took about 30 minutes to complete. The writing exercise was akin to a truncated law school exam and took about two hours to draft and proof. Later, I was handed off to a different recruiter assigned to the legal team who ushered me through the rest of the process. She was also very helpful and promptly responded to questions.
There were six separate interviews with members of relevant legal teams, then a lunch with an attorney who allowed me to pepper him with questions, and a bar raiser in the last round. Questions asked were similar to those that were asked during the phone interview. However, with jet lag, post-lunch lethargy, and having endured six hour-long interviews, I felt brain-dead in my interview with the bar raiser. He was friendly and personable, but his hypos threw me for several loops to the point where I struggled with even the most basic questions.
I rated the the process as "difficult" due to the lengthy (~8am-4pm in my case) on-site component.
It took a little under a week for the hiring manager to circle back with an offer.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Apr 2025
Interview
Applied for multiple roles and got referred, rejected without personal contact. Then was contacted by a recruiter for more general role of corporate counsel. Working with the recruiter was pleasant, but scheduling the second phone interview was a hassle, and the phone interview itself felt like a test of the Amazon interview skills rather than actual skills needed for the job. Did not feel a connection to the interviewer and was rejected in an auto email about a day later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Talk about a time when you had to advise senior leadership in written form.
Lengthy process, a lot of time wasted. They make you believe that you are a suitable candidate and after a round of interviews, one written assessment, and a final 5 hour interview with 5 different attorneys they take more than two weeks to tell they cannot give you an offer and they cannot provide feedback.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Jan 2025
Interview
I applied online for an Amazon Corporate Counsel role, and about two weeks later a recruiter reached out to schedule an initial phone screen. The recruiter asked general background questions about my experience, where I was admitted to practice, geographic preferences, and what type of legal work I was most interested in. Based on that conversation, they determined I would likely be a fit for the “generalist” corporate counsel pipeline rather than a specific posted role.
I was then scheduled for an interview with a senior member of Amazon’s legal team who was not tied to any particular business unit or opening. Prior to the interview, I had to complete a writing exercise.
The interview itself was fairly comprehensive. It included:
* questions about my resume and prior experience;
* why I was interested in Amazon;
* substantive and hypothetical legal questions testing legal judgment and analysis; and
* scenario-based behavioral questions.
About two weeks later, I heard that I had passed that round and would move forward in the process. At that point, I was told they needed to match me with a specific team/business group before proceeding further.
After that, communication became less consistent. I followed up a few times over the following months. Initially, recruiting responded that they were still trying to identify the right team fit and asked me to be patient. Eventually, though, the responses stopped and I never ended up being matched with a team or advancing further in the process.
Interview wasn’t “difficult”, just a lot of prep, without actual possibility of there being a match.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
* questions about my resume and prior experience;
* why I was interested in Amazon;
* substantive and hypothetical legal questions testing legal judgment and analysis; and
* scenario-based behavioral questions.