8 weeks from submitting application to find out if I even had an interview. Had pretty much forgotten about it. Had 2 phone interviews, then was invited for an assessment day. The process was really weird for a product related role. I understand the importance of their principles, but it becomes nothing to do with the job after 2 hours of phone interviews. They cannot assess product, brand, trends, customer knowledge with these questions. The first interviewer admitted they had been looking for a while- I am not surprised!! The recruitment contact wasn't helpful at all- I asked a couple of simple questions before my 2nd interview and never got any replies. Pretty rude as I had invested a lot of time myself. Then when I was asked to come in to meet with Amazon I said that I had accepted a role elsewhere (it was a full day off needed, with 3-4 interviews I was told)- I then really politely explained that I didn't feel the questions asked so far were creative/ fashion/ trend related at all (They didn't even ask me what trends were key, what brands I like or anything), and that the role wasn't what was really being advertised. They wanted someone who had done design/ buying/ merchandising/ trend/ multi product/ branded/ own brand/ product development/ manufacturing.... then asked for a 2 page business plan as if I were launching a brand. It was about 6 roles in one. Hence they've had the vacancy for months. Shame they never replied, hopefully they might take it on board.

Interview process is challenging but expected as everything you need to know is available online. They will schedule you with 4 employees from the team or organization you will work with and 1 completely separated from your organization as a "bar raiser". No need to work to impress one specific person, know 12-14 differentiated STAR formatted stories by memory.