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If your company requires interview to transfer _internally_, you should consider leaving. Microsoft was like that (maybe still is, I don't know), and it was easier to get a job elsewhere than to go to a desirable team.

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Microsoft definitely still did as of late 2017, when I was still there. You're absolutely right, it was easier to just get a job elsewhere and that was what I did! Hah. I'm trying to avoid that here, because I like the company, just hoping to work on a different product.

Is a transfer interview not common elsewhere? Anyone know if Amazon or Google requires something like that?

Google and FB aren't like that. The benefit of the uniformly high hiring bar I guess. Don't know about Amazon.

Up to the team. I've "interviewed" for 4 internal transfers there, and I've had:

- Three 1hr interviews, coding/system design/behavioral

- Portfolio review

- Talk to senior engineers on the team for a couple hours

- None (I had people on the team vouch for me)

EDIT: This is about Amazon, in retail and AWS.

Yandex does, and they're known for very long multi-stage interviews too. Instead of transferring, I left and doubled my salary.

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