I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2016
Interview
One phone interview, then one in-person full day interview. aka 'the loop'. The loop involved 6 one on one in person interviews then presentation role play. You are presenting an AWS solution to the C-level members. You will need to learn AWS in order to present. During presentation role play they will distract you and ask you questions you can't possibly know to see how you react, to see if they can throw you off and how you deal with different roles. All interviewers then get together in a day or two to discuss and debate whether or not they think you would be a good fit and why or why not. One of the interviewers are known as a 'Bar Raiser'. They can completely override everyone's vote. During the process, no one can provide feedback on how you are doing because it is a group decision. It is a very lengthy day. Lunch was provided. You eat while you are being interviewed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions are all behavioral 'tell me about a time when'...the questions are driven from the leadership principals. Lots of questions about 'why AWS'. Many questions about how you created change in your past organizations and how those have translated into results. Many questions about how you have helped others on your team.
Great management, it was a walk in drive and the HR team was able to manage everything well. Enjoyed the process.
All the best to everyone going for the interview.
fairly easy. phone then hiring manager. took a few weeks to hear back and didn’t get the job unfortunately. i will keep trying! amazon is a great company and i think i just need a bit more experience.
1 Phone screen, 4 loops of behavioral interviews. A bar raiser is involved in one of the 4 loops. They respond back in the same week regarding the next steps / feedback
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