I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2013
Interview
Initially conducted a telephone interview with a recruiter. After the initial interview I was referred to the Operations Manager team and invited to attend a hiring event. Before I attended the interview I had to provided a written paper for one of two questions provided. The interview process was with four seperate people for 45 minutes each. One of the interviewers was an HR person while the others were Operations Managers. The first interviewer asked me to introduce myself and provided a synopsis of the writing assignment. There was also a math flow question which I was concerned about but they are not worried about the answer as much as they want to see your problem solving skills. The remaining interviewers asked standard behavioral questions. Overall I would say the interview was in a very relaxing setting.
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One interviewer asked me about my resume, well a specific bullet on my resume. Other than that there were no real hard questions.
Was contacted much later about my application. First had a intro zoom presentation session where the role was explained, then a one on one with 2 interviewers. It was honestly not that bad. Prepared by knowing the Leadership Principles.
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Give me an example of a calculated risk that you have taken where speed was critical. What was the situation and how did you handle it? What steps did you take to mitigate the risk? What was the outcome? Knowing what you know now, would you have done anything differently?
3 - 45 minutes interview back to back and three different recruiters. mine was through a zoom call and they should have sent you a link through email to join
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just basic questions like tell me about you, why amazon, and why should we hire you.
Star Method and Leadership Principles. Just study these from the materials they give you, and form a story for each principle, and when they ask questions, you can see which principle they are asking about.
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Tell me about a time you faced a conflict or disagreement at work and how did you handle it?"
Area Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 73% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Area Manager roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 1,385 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 Area Manager according to 1,385 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 21%
Phone interview: 18%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 10%
Presentation: 9%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Drug test: 7%
Background check: 7%
Personality test: 7%
Other: 2%
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