For Business Analyst applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2020
Interview
2 phone screens and the final 5hr back to back video calls with 5 interviewers.
1st phone screen was a live code link
2nd phone screen was a 45min behavioural interview with another l6 BA.
Still waiting on the final round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have completed 2 phone screens.
1st phone screen was a live code interview with a L6 BA at amazon.
They provided 2 tables with the column names
2 basic sql qs on finding sales revenue for the entire year and the quantity sold by sql coding.
3rd sql qs was a little more challenging.
They also asked me a qs on linear regression and p-value testing.
The case was on whether the calls recd by the amazon employees depended upon the variable tenure of employment.
Overall not too difficult though if the concepts are clear.
2nd phone screen was a 45min behavioural interview with another l6 BA.
Still waiting on the final round.
I was interviewed for the Business Analyst Summer Intern position for Herndon, VA AWS office and I managed to answer all the questions neatly as I was well prepared about business oriented questions, Amazon leadership principles and everything mentioned on my resume. It lasted for an hour and towards the end of a call the manager said that It would be great to have in their team and asked questions about how I will commute to work etc. I told her I can relocate. Then she said that I will hear back from the recruiter within 3 business days. I was happy and I was hoping for a good news as It went very smoothly. But after 5 business days I didn't receive any email or call. Then I sent an email asking for a feedback but recruiter never replied on time saying she has been busy with work and bla bla stuff. My job application status was under consideration so I kept sending mails for getting a feedback. Finally after sending around 5-6 emails, I received an email on 16th day saying the already hired somebody else. I am very much disappointed with the way they handled this process and wasted so much of my time. I have heard that Amazon never values their employees from their other employees but now I have actually experienced it by my own. Keeping candidates waiting is the worst thing and major flaw in a recruitment process. I hope the recruitment team reads this feedback and improve their standard. I am aware that handling too many applications is not easy but since they have huge recruitment team, they should know how to handle this. Extremely disappointing. They don't value the applicants at all. Fortune 500 rankings could be misleading sometimes.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Amazons leadership principles in terms of my experience, strengths, challenges faced, academic project questions, some other tech questions
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2020
Interview
Recruiter reached over LinkedIn and interview set up in a week. It was 45 min SQL white-boarding and few min on what I do in current role and what they are expecting. I did poorly, mainly due to my lack of SQL knowledge. But interviewer was good and polite. I knew I blew it though the interviewer mentioned I did good at the end.