I used to live about 8 hours drive from where I'm currently working (rural australia to Sydney). When they found out where I was, they arranged the normal 4 interviews to be arranged back to back rather than spread out over a few days.
Just the fact they were willing to do that meant a lot for me (because no one else had ever bothered how inconvenient it was for me to do interviews).
Still here 3 years later and the attitude shown during the interview process extended right through the company.
I think the comment is just being misunderstood, but Amazon (at least AWS), doesn't do any try before you buy type stuff. It is usually an hour long initial phone screen, than an all day long 7 hour interview with multiple people over the course of a single day in Seattle.
