Área Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 4 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 61.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Phoenix, AZ) in Feb 2011
Interview
The phone interview was straight forward and lasted about 45 mins to 1 hr. Basic questions of the behavioral variety. Overall the screener was very nice and made you feel comfortable.
The panel interview took about 5 hours for the whole thing. It was broken down into a math problem and then meeting with 3 different groups and/or individuals. You also had to send in ahead of time an answer to 4 different scenarios which you discussed during the panel review.
This interview was not comfortable and was designed to be a stressful interview to see if you can handle it. The interviewers would throw curve balls in the questions to see what you would do.
Most all the time they all kept saying that this place is stressful and "Amazon owns your soul" for 3 months of the year. Definitely they were trying to scare most people off.
Did not get an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The math problem was the most difficult if you are not used to algebra type word problems. I am assuming that none of the people interviewing do this kind of thing on a daily basis.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2010
Interview
Submitted resume through Career Link at University. They contacted me. One 1:1 Behavioral interview followed directly by another 1:1 Case Study Interview
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Name a time you had to convince someone to do something they did not want to do
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Phoenix, AZ) in Feb 2011
Interview
I'll post more information when I get time.. just wanted to get the most recent math problem on here for anyone getting ready to interview soon.
INBOUND FLOW QUESTION
You are in charge of the department that recieves the product to building and stows it to the bin where it is accessible by the next department. You have two options on how to recieve and stow the product.
Option One: You can recieve the product at 250uph and stow it at 100uph (units per labor hour). You must recieve it and stow it for the unit to count for the production. This process results in 1% error of units being stowed incorrectly. You can find and fox these errors at a rate of 20uph with what you believe is almost 100% accurancy.
Option Two: You recieve and stow the product in a one step vs two. The rate for this process is 80uph for recieve and stow. This process results in 1.5% error and you can fix these errors at 20uph with 100% accuracy.
1. Which option would you select to process today's unit and why?
2. Does your answer change if you are told you must fully process 100,000 units today? If yes, why?
3. Does your answer change if you are told you have 15 associates today and you must produce the maximim amount of units possible? If yes, why?
So, what they don't tell you (for those of you with zero warehouse exp) that Option one is a two step process, one peron has to recieve and one person has to stow. So, if you have 8 people, 2 have to recieve and 6 have to stow, etc. Good luck.
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