I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
Difficult interview. Had 5 onsite interviews. Each for 45 minutes. All behavior based interview questions. Allowed to really get to know the job and what they were looking for. All in all a very good process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had to work in ambiguity?
I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2018
Interview
I saw an opening and contacted them directly to inquire, they setup an interview with what clearly what was a new recruiter who rushed through the entire process. I never felt they were really interested, just seemed like they wanted to pretend like they consider underrepresented minority candidates considering they hardly have any, in some cases zero across departments at the professional level and above.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Mar 2019
Interview
I had a 1 hour phone interview with a team member. Questions were based on the 14 leadership principles. I got an on-site interview email after 5 days.
You have to submit a writing sample before the on-site.
On-site: 10 am to 4pm with lunch.
First interview - It was with the Hiring manager. After brief introduction, he started questioning on the writing sample. Few questions on the leadership principles such as innovative product and questions on the ownership
Second interview - it was with the Product marketing manager. Again, questions on innovative product, challenge and leadership situation.
Lunch - I had a lunch with a team member. Causal conversation.
Third interview - it was with a different team manager (must be a bar raiser). Questions were based on metrics - how did you capture and results. A lot of follow up questions on each answer.
Fourth interview - it was with another manager. Questions on frugality and decisions without any data.
Fifth interview - it was with another team member. A lot of questions on leadership and why amazon?
Tip: create 3 unique stories for each leadership principle. Don’t repeat the same story (I did this mistake). No product case study. Use a lot of metrics and numbers, Amazonian love it.
Your interviewer will be typing the notes in the laptop, don’t let it bother you.