I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2012
Interview
Step 1. The entire process started with the HR person contacting me over phone and asking for a convenient time for scheduling an initial screening with another TPM
Step 2. The person called me at the designated time and it lasted 1/2 hour as scheduled. Questions mostly centered around Project management activities.
- What would you do if resources required for the project are not available?
- Explain about your current project
- etc
Step 3. I got through the same and was called for the "Loop" or the Face-2-Face interview in Amazon offices
Step 4. The "Loop" are day long back-to-back interviews. I met 7 different people on one-on-one basis, each lasting 45 mins to 1 hour.
- Started with meeting the Recruiting coordinator. HR Stuff. Expected salary. Relocation questions
- Next with the Dev manager. Discussions were around
- Explanation of my current role and project
- Drawing the architecture diagram of current project on the white board
- Deep diving on current project architecture
- Thoughts on how to build/implement/roll out mobile applications
- 3rd interview was with another TPM (from the same team I was interviewing for). Lots of "How" questions
- How would you handle Risk / Schedule / Resource non-availability etc
- Situational questions - Have a project which needs to be completed in 4 months, but as per estimate, you know it will take 8 months. How would you achieve?
- 4th interview was with Developers
- 5th interview was a lunch interview with the Hiring manager. Similar questions as before
- 6th interview with yet another TPM. Mundane stuff like knowledge on Lean / Six Sigma process etc
- 7th interview with Product manager. Probing on my knowledge about Amazon products. Approach to productize a process. Why do you want Amazon?
Step 5. That was the end of it. The next day I got an email from HR about my result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Did not expect to be asked about Mobile technology. Have not worked on it. Hence was a surprise.
First round - Hiring manager screening; covers leadership principles important for the job
Final round - 5 interviews with writing assessment; each round covers around 3 leadership principles; all interviews are behavioral
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions related to leadership principles listen on Amazon website; e.g., how to handle a difficult customer
Split in to several stages. (1) Phone screen. (2) Skill test at home. (3) Behaviour based interview questions. You meet people in your prospective team. Behaviour based interview questions. Can you tell me about a time when you did x, y or z to get a result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behaviour based interview questions. Can you tell me about a time when you did x, y or z to get a result. What obstacles did you overcome. Looking back, what would you have done differently.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Phone interview followed by in person day of interviews. Everyone was very friendly and range of technical, behavioral and product questions. Could tell who the bar raiser was who asked a design question around building an app.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a mobile app to track scores and send notifications.