Amazon Senior Manager interview questions

I applied online and was contacted by a recruiter. The recruiter only spoke in copy/paste scripts and seemed entirely uninterested in her job. I was asked to complete a 60 minute virtual job simulation and passed, then I was forwarded along to the hiring manager without any recruiter screen/prep. The hiring manager was nice enough and I heard back within 2 days that I would go to the panel interview. It took a few weeks to hear back about actually scheduling the interview, which consisted of 5 different people over the course of an entire workday (I had to use vacation time). The day before the panel, I was sent an email from the recruiter saying this position required a 2-4 page writing sample and I was provided two topics to choose from. The recruiter then told me that this was due "no later than 48 hours prior" to my panel interview (yet I received these instructions 24 hours prior to the interview). Nevertheless, I took a half day off work to get this back to them ASAP. The panel participants were okay but, as others have said, it's all about the STAR method and being able to spit out numbers. I don't mind that approach, but I was asked 17 different STAR based scenario questions which is honestly pretty absurd. I had answers for them all, but realistically I did not have 17 different "wow" stories specifically involving numbers (some were qualitative based, due to the nature of my role). By the time I got to the infamous "bar raiser" at the very end, I had exhausted most of my substantive quantitative questions (and he only wanted to hear about numbers). All in all, I couldn't have been more prepared, and was happy with my performance. The recruiter called to tell me the results were quote "a mixed bag" and that they wanted to hire me, but for about 30% less than the salary expectations I conveyed in my very first correspondence to the recruiter. Honestly it was an insult to my experience and a giant waste of my time (mentally and literally, as I expended 1.5 vacation days for this process). Please do not sacrifice your self-worth to go through this process with a company that has horrible reviews on Glassdoor.

Disappointed. Interviewed for 2 positions. Interviews were scheduled and cancelled at the last minute for both positions, sometimes multiple times. Then I was ghosted by the recruiters with zero responses to my emails and phone calls. Very unprofessional.