I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Nov 2012
Interview
Very nice talent acquisition team. The interviewer started by saying "I have several years of varied and rich experience in ecommerce". Ok, I get it! You are smart!
Weird interview questions.
The interviewer had a fixed answer in his brain. Had difficulty forming questions. The first question, "if you were working for amazon, what would your KRA be?". When asked what was KRA, the interviewer changed it to KPI. When asked to clarify further, the question was changed to "What are your key levers if you were working for for Amazon?". As I understand, levers are what you control and not indicators like Page Views or CTR.
I have not heard back from Amazon yet, but it has left me with a bad taste in my mouth. They need to get some people who need to be trained in conducting interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
More like unexpected ploy: How do you build customer intimacy and then saying this is not the answer for all possible answers from experience and michael porter.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Sep 2012
Interview
I applied through the site and get a phone call from a recruiter a couple of days later. went through two phone interviews (one with a peer, one with the hiring manager) that went well. a week later i flew to Seattle for a day of interviews. Most interviewers were nice and friendly apart from my hiring manager that seem to have tried to make the questions unclear on purpose and offered no help when I tried to better understand his intention.
One of my main challenges was that my hiring manager wasn't being specific about the job description and kept giving me very general answers. It was only when I spoke with other people that I realized this wasn't a real product role and was not what I was looking for.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most questions were along the lines of "tell me about a time when you faced a challenge and over come it" or "a mistake that you've done" or "an analysis that went wrong". also "an amazon product that you love and why"