Amazon Financial Analyst interview questions

This whole process was chaotic and disjointed. I started talking to one recruiter, interviewed well for one job, then was handed off to another recruiter for a second interview. That recruiter told me to prepare to give examples of how my work has shown the 14 Amazon leadership principles and had a scheduler contact me to set up a time. 10 minutes before our scheduled time, the scheduler emailed me, saying that my interviewer had an urgent matter to attend to, and moved the interview to the following day. The second interview was conducted by a man with a heavy accent and was 100% technical. I wasted several days preparing for questions I wasn't asked. I wasn't mentally prepared to answer technical questions - and not because they were outside of my breadth of knowledge, but because I has spent all of my time focusing on the Leadership Principles.

I applied through a referral. There were two interviews with two managers (45 minutes each) and an onsite interview (5 hours). I met with 6 people in total, one of them is the lunch buddy and one is the bar raiser. Even though the position I applied for is entry-level, the interviewers asked a lot of hard questions and looked for stories that most likely only an experienced analyst would have. They asked a lot of follow-up questions and they wanted impressive answers. Also, when they ask how you would deal with a difficult person at work, they are looking to see if you know how to set priorities and say no when you need to, it's not really about how you would deal with the difficult person in general.