Sorry, I only saw your comment now. They were asking stuff like finding patterns (like in IQ tests). Then they also had ones where you had to read text and then say what you would do with it based on certain requirements. You couldn't skip questions so I spent way too much time on the number ones.
I cannot obviously tell you the exact specifics because of the NDA.
I am curious what your opinion is of these? I personally find this practice loathsome. Was this something that happened after speaking to a human or was this the initial screening?
It was the initial screening and I was very upset that they rejected me since I did (very) well on the coding part but poorly on that reasoning test. If I have a good GPA at a Uni with a degree in Computer Science, then they can certainly assume that I can reason and there is no need to put me through a very strictly timed "IQ test."
Maybe I dodged a bullet there and Amazon would have been a bad place to end up anyway.
I cannot obviously tell you the exact specifics because of the NDA.