I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Baltimore, MD) in Nov 2016
Interview
Math question followed by meeting three other employees. They want you to use the STAR format in answering questions that dont even fit into that format. Everyone wants to appear super smart.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2017
Interview
Long and strange. I interviewed with 3 other candidates. One was 30 mins late, one brought his phone on the tour because it kept going off even though phones were prohibited. Started with a tour of a fulfilment center but not the one I was interviewing for. I got done with the math test portion within 5 mins. The other candidates took the full 15 but they also got the wrong answers because I sat there and watched them struggle. The answers were gone over during one of 4 35 minute interviews. They asked the typical interview questions and nothing surprised me. Would not work for them. Seems like they want people who are dumb enough to work lots of hours for little money and not complain. They promote things that don't matter like a casual dress code and free pizza during the busy season. Seems inconsequential when you're in a warehouse 13 hours a day. No vetting process on the entry level employees, they do large training classes and pray for low attrition rates.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Hamburg) in May 2017
Interview
I am posting here because I got tips from this page and I owe it as a duty.
I was contacted through linkdIn to consider applying for the position.
After the first phone interview, I was scheduled for the virtual panel. 2 back to back interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First phone interview asked questions like
1. Why Amazon
2. Why operations
3. Tell me a time when you showed bias for action e.t.c
Virtual panel interview
1. Asked me to tell about a time that I dived into data
2. The second question talked about Bias for action
The second interview discussed the role in more detail and asked me what I thought the role entailed. I had to describe my future activity on day to day basis.
I think my performance in this interview was fairly good. Unfortunately, I have been rejected from proceeding. Too bad I did not learn anything from this process and about how to improve in future.