Amazon Corporate Counsel interview questions

It is a multi-stage interview with an emphasis on behavioral questions and hypotheticals. Different interviewers will focus on the different areas, with candidates typically meeting with between four and five folks.

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.