Sr. 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 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Project Manager roles take an average of 14 days to get hired, when considering 4 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Sr. Project Manager according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 40%
One on one interview: 40%
Other: 20%
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The process was thorough although for a Product Role I was expecting a lot of questions around the product and what I would do with a product for the role I was interviewing for. However, what I encountered was multiple interviews where almost everyone asked me the same questions just in a different way. One of the interviewers actually told me he was reading off the interview question sheet - I thought that was strange as the company I am at now, if we interview for product roles we want to know how product plans, roadmaps, strategies, analytics, etc... have been done in the past and we are interested in the tangible products the candidate has created.
The interviewers were obviously a smart team and had good questions about numbers and a lot of questions about statistical decision making - which is fine - maybe the product I was applying for was an analytics tool instead of what I thought it was :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Name a time you made a big decision based on metrics - was an odd question to me - I don't just use metrics to make decisions, the metrics guide people to look deeper into the area, not jump to decisions. My opinion!
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Oct 2014
Interview
The hiring process consists of three parts,I made it to round one and didn't get an invite to round two--
1) First thing I had to do was complete a two part online test (1st part is like a very simple IQ test, 2nd part is a personality test to probably see if you match with their 14 leadership principles). After this, you're either accepted or rejected for a first round interview.
2) First round interview--two 30 minute interviews. The personalities of the interviewers were very different, the first was very low key, the second was very high energy. Phone interviews were conducted on the same day about two hours apart. The interviews weren't really either behavioral or case-based which really threw me off-- they were very entrepreneurial, problem recognition/solving focused. Be able to talk to Amazon as a company, what you think some of it's problems are, and new product suggestions. Expect interviewers to "dive deep" and get into why you're answering questions the way you are.
As a side note-- I had other friends interview for other positions (program manager, logisitics) and their questions/focus were very different than mine. Good luck and hopefully you have a better chance than I did.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
First interview questions-
1. What can Amazon do to improve the user's experience? How can we do this? Why do you think people like ____?
2. What is your favorite piece of technology. How would you improve it? What would you do to make these improvements?
3. What's the biggest problem you've solved?
Second interview questions-
1) What is it about Amazon that interests you, what area/product do you want to work in?
2) Amazon, in partnership with Chase, offers a credit card. We use to have a high acceptance rate but the 2008 crisis caused it to drop. How can we raise this rate back up?
3) How is Amazon's growth constrained? How do you think we should solve this?
4) What are some reasons a person might want to buy something from a corner store instead of buying something through Amazon? Pick one reason and solve it.
5) Tell me about a time you disagreed with a peer, how was it resolved?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Irvine, CA) in Sep 2014
Interview
Phone interview. The guy interviewing me was talking to me on speaker, "multi tasking" I could not hear him well and he seemed upset with me that I could not hear him. My former VP is a VP at Amazon and 3 of my former co-workers are working at Amazon, I was very excited to have the opportunity. Disappointed that Amazon lets the employee's act so arrogant and disrespectful. I was well prepared for an interview that gave me no chance. Hopefully most people will not encounter this.