I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2011
Interview
Got an email saying my resume has been shortlisted. Replied back to the email specifying dates for a telephonic interview. Did not receive an acknowledgment email confirming the date. A day before the date that I had asked for got a confirmation email.
There were 2 back to back telephonic interviews about personal goals, why do i fit into the role, some creative questions about amazon's business changes, explaining the past work situations.
I do not know what constitutes right answer for these kind of questions and since its telephonic, it all depends on choice of words and brevity.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
What attributes of yours' are good enough for the senior product manager role?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
Employee referred resume to HR person. HR person emailed to schedule phone interview with member of team. Interviewer called on scheduled day/time for 45min phone interview.
Tips: Amazon wants to see your customer-centric approach to everything - whether pricing or product feature decision-making. They also want to see proactive, initiative-taking, entrepreneurial approach. You have to sound smart, upbeat, and cool. Sense of humor, positive attitude are a must.
People are very smart, friendly, and want you to succeed in interviews because they really want good people. Interviewers are prepared with questions that find out about you and ask intelligent and questions that are appropriately challenging for the position, and don't ask gotcha questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How do you think Amazon may have come up with the $80 fee for the Amazon Prime membership program? - this is a classic pricing question.
Specifically asked about particular job roles and asked to elaborate on things on my resume. For e.g. tell me more about this role and responsibility. What, how, why did you do x, y, or z tasks.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon in Jan 2012
Interview
Started with questionnaire that I filled in and sent back follow STAR format. Then had a 30 min phone interview with the hiring manage with what are you looking for, what was your best, worst type questions and was invited for an onsite. Met with 8 people in 6 hours with no breaks. Mostly STAR type questions. NO one really seemed happy or excited; they seemed over worked, haggard. They really pushed on why I made decisions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What data did you use to support your decision to cut a product?