I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2009
Interview
4 phone interviews with HR, Manager, 2 peers. One entire day spent at main office with 7 in person interviews. Manager, and other senior team members who I would be working with and one VP. Each about 45 minutes to 1 hour. No questions about my background or experience. Each person had about 4 situational questions to ask. I thought some were odd. Some required math skills. They were friendly but it was intense. I walked away with absolutely no indication of how I did or if the answers were what they wanted to hear. The surroundings were modest and not very well kept. I expected the offices to be nicer. Perhaps when they move to their new headquarters in a year or two things will improve.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were going to plan two new distribution center locations for Amazon where would you locate them and why.
How would you decide what product to put in each DC
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2009
Interview
The people I talked to are smart. The onsite interview was quite exhausting. I talked to 6 people within 4.5 hours. Interview still went on over lunch. Some of the interview questions were tough and hard to prepare in advance as they asked for my opinions on product/marketing strategies or my thought process in analyzing data for business decisions when I only had a few seconds to think.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If the SVP of this division communicates to you the business goal is to double revenue for this product in three years, how do you go about creating a three-year business plan that will achieve the goal?
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2008
Interview
Amazon likes to put candidates in small little rooms (what I think of as interrogation rooms) and grill them all day. (In reality, these are their standard meeting rooms.) Amazon is exceedingly data-centric, and for positions like the one I was interviewing, it is important, but for a Product Management position, I think it's stressed too heavily. I was interviewed by developers about algorithms at one point!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They will ask many questions about the current service and how it can be improved.