Amazon Sr Project Manager interview questions

I cannot disclose much information due to the NDA that I signed. Amazon was hiring a product manager with rare and deep expertise in the new and emerging field. I had the extensive experience and the expertise is it. I had 2 friends working in the department who recommended me. Both VPs have conversations with me in person and put thought interview loop. The whole thing: application, meeting with VPs, scheduling, interviewing took from April to July … now I am not sure why I went through this :) I enjoyed my conversations with folks and thought the interviews went ok, but I am lousy interviewee. I would not say questions very either challenging or unexpected. Smaller part was behavioral and larger part was about my experience and follow up questions on my answers. Strange thing was that none of my interviewers were the folks hiring – I guess Amazon is trying to eliminate bias. In the end, Amazon did not offer me and provided no feedback, and that was within 3 working days, however after my follow up.

I got a call from the HR in Bangalore asking if I were interested in applying for a senior product manager role. Then there was no word for almost a month, so I thought the opening was filled up. I got another call asking if I could do a telephonic interview with them. The interview process was tedious. After two telephonic interviews, I had to submit 2 case studies and was then invited for a day long interview session. The first interviewer was a peer, and we discussed questions relevant to the job. The second and third were slightly more technical, and involved estimation and business problem solving. All involved asking behavioural questions - what were problems I had solved in my earlier work, biggest learning, etc. I was also asked to write an essay (ostensibly to test my communication ability - in fact it left me wondering whether they had mistaken me for a junior candidate!). Since the other interviewers had not turned up, I was told the other interviews would happen over the phone. One of the two telephonic interviews was domain specific. The other seemed to be a drag - the interviewer tried asking behavioural questions, but I had already covered most of the questions in previous interviews and it was repetitive. I had a final interview with the hiring manager where I was asked to solve business questions. Overall, my impression was that I had fared quite well. I was surprised to see a canned rejection letter the coming week, with no reasoning of why I was not selected. After 8 rounds of interview and 3 case studies, I would expect more clarity from the company. I got the feeling that the HR was junior, and did not know how to deal with experienced candidates.