I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2016
Interview
I was contacted via an internal recruiter, Never to turn down a chance to practice my interview skills, of course I said I liked the job. I had one HR screening with some standard questions. Was sent a link to complete online exam.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You join Amazon Delivery Experience org that supports a service responsible for vending delivery options across the retail website. The service has a set of hard coded rules in Java and every time that the Product Managers would like to modify those rules, the come to the Developers and ask to change code to implement new rules or changes to the existing ones. To reduce the time it take the Developers to implement changes, your Director asks you to re-design the service such that the Developers don't need to be involved at least when changes are being made to the existing rules. The new system has to remain highly available and salable to support calls from the client services which rely on the output of this service, just like the old system. Assume you have 5 Engineers on a team available to do the work, and your Scrum iterations are a month long.
1) What Questions would you ask? What other information do you need? State all assumptions you make about answers to these questions
2) Please describe key components of the system that you would propose, assuming no external solutions can be purchased.
3) How would the original design change if you were told that traffic to your service is going to grow 50% yr over yr.
4) Would would you potentially try to deliver in the first Sprint? 2nd Sprint?
5) Let's suppose that your director would review the estimates of effort and time it would take to deliver the new system, and wasn't pleased with it as it would take 6 months to build. Instead, he would propose to extract the business rules into the configuration file and deploy it to the 5 client services that consume the output.
a) How would you respond to this request?
b) Imagine that your team was resisting this approach and only wanted to go froward with the best possible. What would you tell them and how would you reconcile the disagreement between your team's opinion and the director?
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jan 2021
Interview
I got referred by a friend for few positions, received a call for one of them. Hiring manager explained the interview process and also guided on the preparation.
During the phone screen interview,
The interviewer was not the person who was told to me will be taking the interview, so it was a slight shock as I researched a bit from LinkedIn about the proposed interviewer.
Moving on, she told me that she will be taking notes and will mostly be on mute. The interview went ok, as she was on mute most of the time, I felt a little disengaged and also a little extra conscious as it was just me who switched the camera on.
The questions were good and I got opportunities to speak on various aspects of my experience and some situation based scenarios.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Amazon ?
Why you are looking for a new role ?
What metrics have you used to improve a process?
Can you tell me about an issue which you faced and how did you resolve it ?
If Jeff comes and tells you, you have 12 months to launch a product, what will be your strategy?
If you get to know about an issue which will cause delay in the product launch, what will you do ?
What will be your strategy to communicate about this delay?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 (San Jose, CA) in Mar 2020
Interview
1. Initial Phone Screen - To ensure that both sides understand what is the role that is being needed to be filled
2. 1st Round Phone Interview - Go through you own project management process to see if you have a handle of managing a project from inception to closure
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Please go through a typical project management flow
Q: How would you request for resources that are not available
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Lab126 (Sunnyvale, CA) in Jun 2019
Interview
Interview was pretty professional. had 1 telephonic and once I was through I was asked to come onsite. Onsite was 5 rounds( Please be prepared to discuss your scenarios in depth rather than just skimming though them). The interviewers were pretty professional and considerate. The objective of the interviewers were to evaluate and help answer to the best of my ability(which helped me in doing my best)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Scenario based. recommend preparing based on leadership principles and projects you have worked.
Technical Program Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Lab126 with 3.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 80% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical Program Manager roles take an average of 12 days to get hired, when considering 11 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon Lab126 overall takes an average of 22 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon Lab126 as a Technical Program Manager according to 11 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 41%
One on one interview: 27%
Presentation: 9%
Drug test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Skills test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 5%
Other: 5%
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