I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2013
Interview
I was first contacted by HR to check my interest in role. Then I had first round of phone interview with the hiring manager, followed by another round of phone screen with someone from outside the immediate team.
Most of the questions were related to project management, such as how did you handle risk, motivate resources who don't report toyou, handle conflicting priorities and handle scope creep. Try and answer with real time experiences you've had and telling a small story
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one interviewer at onsite was a bit rude and kept assuming that all organizations work like Amazon and was not able to understand why I did what i did in teh financial sector. I did not push too hard back at him; however, if i were to repeat, i would have told him that his vision is limited.
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
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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.
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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 Project 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 Project 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 Project 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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