Program Manager 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.
Candidates applying for Program Manager roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Program Manager according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 100%
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I interviewed at Amazon (Arlington, VA) in Jan 2021
Interview
Once I received the go for the second interview my prep of the principals and STAR method kicked into high gear. This being said I was ready for a high-quality interview. Instead, I had an interviewer that was late and did not stick to the script. I was shocked by the blank questions and when I drilled down with the hiring manager for specificity, I received the same blanket question. I was perplexed by this. It happened several times during the interview and at one point the interviewer was looking down at his phone for a period of time. At this point, I felt the interview already had his mind made up about another person and completed the interview just because.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you deal with ambiguity?
What does data mean to you?
What does risk mean to you?
Tell me about a difficult decision you had to make?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Washington, DC) in Dec 2020
Interview
Series of five interviews with different team members, each team member asking scripted questions based on the Amazon 14 leadership principles. More like an interrogation than an interactive, two-way conversation, where the candidate is expected to provide all the information but interviewers hold back from answering questions or provide only vague information at best.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where you exceeded customer expectations
There was a GD followed by a case study round. After the case study there were 2 interview rounds. The first round was based on the vase study. Everything from the case study was asked..