Area 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 4 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Sep 2009
Interview
Conducted an initial phone screen with a recruiter who found my resume and contacted me. At first I was not interested, but then did a follow-up with the recruiter to discuss taking the application process further. What followed were a couple of additional phone screens with HR and then an upper level manager. That was followed by a face-to-face interview on site - they paid for my travel. The on-site interview consisted of a word problem (they call it a math problem), a questionnaire of scenarios (completed prior to the interview), a tour and a panel interview. While the interview appeared to go well I grew concerned that the facility was actually overstaffed in terms of managers and that I was overqualified for the position. The interview was concluded with a promise of an answer in 7 days. As promised, on day 7 I got the thanks but no thanks email. Of course, no information about why I wasn't selected, just that they were going with another candidate.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In a 10 hour shift, how will you staff to achieve a goal of sending out 7500 packages. More info was provided re: the labor hours, laborer productivity, etc.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dallas, TX) in Sep 2009
Interview
I was contacted through a recruiter and they setup a phone interview with an Amazon HR type. This was just a basic phone screen where they ran through my resume. The recruiter then called me to setup a second phone interview with the DFW site leader and that went well enough for the to fly me in for a face to face interview. My time at the DFW site began by handing paperwork in to the local HR rep and I was then taken on a tour of the facility. After that I had to solve an operations type math problem which was pretty easy and I then had an hour long panel interview with the Site Leader, Sr. Ops Mgr., Inbound Ops Mgr, and an HR type. I felt the interview went well enough and they said they would get back to me in a week. Well a week came and went and two weeks later they called me to tell me they chose another candidate. The other thing they had me do before the interview was answer 4 case questions. The thing that I really did not like was they didn't adhere to their timeline and they offered absolutely no feedback on the process. Its disappointing that it did not workout, but it is their loss and I will find something better
You have 25 laborers for a shift.
Pickers pick 100 units an hour
Small item packers pack 150 units an hour
Large item packers pack 25 units an hour
You must pack 7500 small units during a ten hour shift.
How would you staff your shift?