I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2011
Interview
There were 2 phone interviews (one behavioral and one market selection case). HR seemed overworked with most emails going unanswered when you try to contact them prior to your interviews. As one other interviewee had indicated, the scheduling of the flights happened at the very last moment with no communication in-between leaving you clueless on if you will make it to Seattle that day or not. On site interviews were similar in nature to the phone interviews. The questions were very similar to what is already posted here (how would you go about bringing this product to market, how would you price this product etc). Nothing too difficult if you had prepared for case/behavioral questions. All interviewers except one were very friendly and the interviews were conducted very professionally. You are given sufficient time to ask any questions during each interview and all the folks seemed genuine in their replies. However, based on what I saw on interview day (and based on the number of people I ran into at the hotel), Amazon seems to interview an abnormally high number of folks on-site (even from top 5 b schools) for the product manager position and ding a lot of them. That seemed to indicate a total lack of respect for time for all involved.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you go about selecting a target market to launch this particular product
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2011
Interview
Got contacted by a recruiter and after a call with her I got 2 phone interviews scheduled. Each were about 45 minutes long. A few days after the second interview a on-site interview was scheduled. I met with about 7 people from the team, each for 45 minutes. I got the final answer just 24 hours after that, with no reason whatsoever, which is a little disappointing after 4 weeks of interview process. But the whole thing was well organized and interesting.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How do you measure success of the [Cloud Drive] product of Amazon?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2011
Interview
Got a call from recruiter and i took 2 phone interviews which consists group member and hiring manager.
each phone interview lasted 50~60 mins.
after the interview, no one got back to me even after i sent numerous emails to the recruiter.
wasn't a pleasure experience.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What is the difference between project manager and product manager?