I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Jul 2022
Interview
I hope this debrief of my experience helps you with your process.
Lesson learned: I got so stressed during this process that I could not enjoy my family/friends visit. This DOES NOT WORTH IT!Try not to stress; my respect for this company went down after seeing how POOR and USELESS "feedback" was.
If you invest 9 hours and the company does it too, saying that "I do not have experience enough" feels silly and speaks poorly of the companythat puts employees to interview rounds for hours. Is their lost too. $$$
Exact Feedback:"The team considers you don't have experience enough." "Keep in touch; Amazon wants you" and "Keep applying".
The interview process was a rollercoaster of energy investment, not human. (6 consecutive hours, round 3)All the questions are on Youtube and here on Glassdoor. Nothing hidden. They will ask you the same robotics questions " tell me about a time WHEN...."
1:1's were smooth and with nice people. I felt respected and listened to all along, except for one person.
My conclusion:It is not about your EXPERIENCE (I have plenty, and I don't doubt it for a second) It is about WHO the interviewers are and what they are looking for. Subjective, not objective.
Time: 2 months
---- Round 1 ------Interview 1:HR ( person 1) 60 mins conversation explaining the process. Asking questions about MY EXPERIENCE :)
---- Round 2 ------
Interview 2:TEAM MEMBER 60 mins conversation with a team member. Showing some portfolio and some LP questions
Interview 3:HIRING MANAGER 60 mins conversation with a hiring manager. Showing some portfolio and some LP questions
-- Round 3 "Congratulations," you passed to the next round! ----
Interview 4: PORTFOLIO REVIEW - Easy50 min to present 3 case studies and 10 min QA
Interview 5:1:1 with a member of a partner team
Interview 6:1:1 with Bar Raiser.I barely understand his accent. It was a complicated conversation to understand the questions.He was reading the LP questions and digging in, making me confused. I did not feel comfortableat all.
Interview 7:WHITEBOARD1:1 with a member of a partner team + + 1 person JrThe exercise was a great experience, FUN!and the exercise was not difficult at all. (this step was I was more worried, it was easy)
Interview 8:1:1 UX Researcher + 1 person Jr
Interview 9:1:1 Hiring Manager (same person of round 2)
Feedback HR after three days.
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2022
Interview
1. Recruiter call to learn about me and give an overview of the interview process. There was a tiny moment when a question of mine was not being understood by the recruiter and the environment got tense before I pivoted to a different question - weird experience.
2. Hiring Manager behavioral interview - This one was quite difficult. Not because of the questions themselves but because the interviewer was extremely focused on talking about shipped products and evaluating metrics after a product ships. Sadly, I'm pretty early career so I didn't have any concrete examples to talk about and was quite surprised to see him being kinda stubborn about wanting to hear only examples about shipped products (offered an example from my school projects but he declined).
I still won't rate it poorly though because iterating based on metrics is prob the main part of the job.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Tell me about a time you changed a design based on metrics.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2022
Interview
Very professional and to-the-point. We discussed how my background related to the product area and then discussed some challenges of the product more broadly. I was scheduled promptly and received an offer less than two weeks later.