Senior Project 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.
Candidates applying for Senior Project Manager roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 37 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Senior Project Manager according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 100%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
3 phone interviews (including 1 with the hiring manager and recruiter)
1 writing sample
6 on-site interviews at HQ (including 1 with a bar raiser that checks you're better than at least 50% of current Amazonians of the same level)
Most of the interviews are based on Amazon's leadership principles. I found it a great opportunity to reflect on one's professional and personal experiences, and learn if one is a good fit for Amazon's culture too. My recruiter also generously invested time helping me better prepare by explaining every leadership principle and providing concrete examples.
Although I didn't accept Amazon's kind offer, I really enjoyed meeting with the Kindle content team! From my conversations with the director, hiring manager and peer PMs on the team, I was impressed by the hiring manager's willingness to invest in his team's professional growth, and the Kindle team's collaborative culture e.g. the Kindle PMs meet regularly to give each other feedback.
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Question 1
When you were working on [experience X], what did you find surprising?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 months. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Feb 2017
Interview
2 phone interviews and then 6 back to back on site interviews. The process is very structured, scenario and answer... scenario and answer... not much of a conversation. Scenarios that you got before either in the phone interviews or previous interviewer will be asked again (which makes the process a bit boring). It seems they know exactly what they want
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Question 1
Give me an example when you used the 5 why technique.
Give me an example when you came up with a new metric
Give me an example when you had a bad feedback and how you dealt with it
Give me an example when you had to make a decision without checking with your manager
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Mar 2017
Interview
Despite being a referral the process was really slow and stretched out over 6 weeks. They took time to schedule my final rounds and the recruiter was very un co-operative.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
For any PM interview, they focus on leadership principles and some cases that are specific to the team that is interviewing you. I can understand their focus on leadership principles, but 5 people asking you examples of same situation is not the most efficient way to test a candidate. There are only so many examples of a specific situation that you can relate to from your past experience. What I dislike about their interview process is the way interviewers force you to come up with more stories for the same leadership principle. I expressed my concern with this and I guess this is why they didnt move forward.