Slow. Months to get from applying to being contacted to say "thanks for applying" to an internal recruiter attempting to agree a tiny slot to speak to you, spend 30mins which will add no value to you as they cannot genuinely answer any questions effectively about the role you applied for - but is entirely part of their machine whirring infrastructure to validate people's existence in the many cogs they have in their machine. Once "successful" they will suggest you have made it to get to a telephone interview. What this transpires to be is another stage-gating process where the "interviewer" (another Solutions Architect that is doing interviews because it is something they all have to do in order to satisfy their existence) spends an entire hour (back to back, squeezed in between other interviews or meetings) asking a series of questions, predominantly technical. You literally feel like you are "going through the motions" and at no point feel you are benefiting from the process (in a positive way). What is entirely clear is how much of a "machine" Amazon is. Nothing about the process was personal in any way and I would say entirely off-putting. After your trouble do not expect to get any useful feedback. You are thrown away into the rubbish pile while the machine that is Amazon works its way through the other candidates it has preparing to be a new cog in the machine.