I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (South Seattle, WA) in Mar 2017
Interview
A couple of years ago I send my resume in Amazon for product manager position. There were no following feedback from them. In 2017 though recruiter reached me out by email and said that my profile was selected to be considered for the invitation only hiring event that Amazon was hosting in Europe.
Recruiter provided me with brief description of the role and the teams I would join.
I was asked to send an updated CV. After reviewing my CV, they share a link to the assessment form which I had to complete in a week.
You have only 2 hr, and there's a timer visible running in the background. You have to finish the task in time.
After two weeks they contacted me again and said that they won't move forward for the event. Meanwhile, they suggested to search another job for the best match to your background and reply to the recruiter with a six digit job code for my top pick.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
System design question. Design a system that will be help product managers as the power users to automate incremental improvement to the delivery shipment software.
First round - Hiring manager screening; covers leadership principles important for the job
Final round - 5 interviews with writing assessment; each round covers around 3 leadership principles; all interviews are behavioral
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions related to leadership principles listen on Amazon website; e.g., how to handle a difficult customer
Split in to several stages. (1) Phone screen. (2) Skill test at home. (3) Behaviour based interview questions. You meet people in your prospective team. Behaviour based interview questions. Can you tell me about a time when you did x, y or z to get a result.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behaviour based interview questions. Can you tell me about a time when you did x, y or z to get a result. What obstacles did you overcome. Looking back, what would you have done differently.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Phone interview followed by in person day of interviews. Everyone was very friendly and range of technical, behavioral and product questions. Could tell who the bar raiser was who asked a design question around building an app.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a mobile app to track scores and send notifications.
Technical Product Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 44% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical Product Manager roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 47 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager according to 47 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 37%
One on one interview: 22%
Skills test: 9%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 3%
Drug test: 1%
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