Amazon Technical Project Manager interview questions

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.

I submitted my resume to AWS website and got an email from a recruiter a few days later to set up an interview. The first interview was half behavioral, half about the work I have done in my career. The interviewer went off a script and one could hear them type out stuff on the keyboard. A major downside was the interviewer's terrible accent, which made the process all the more difficult. The second interview was with a guy whose former position I was trying to fill. He was both cocky and apologetic. A lot of questions were similar to the previous interview, however he also added technical depth and grilled on specific encryption methodologies.