J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris plus de 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA) en avr. 2016
Entretien
A very, very long process. 2 phone screeners, in the space of 3 weeks 1 resume based(I had relevant experience) and the other had a coding component(I was given the option of SQL, SAS, R and Python) and a Market entry case. After this stage, I had to wait a 6 weeks before I got a call for an onsite interview.
Onsite, I had 6 back to back interviews. Each interview tested at least 1 leadership principle and also tested problem solving skills. The first interview had a really simple case question that I royally messed up with complicated thinking(I am almost certain that this cost me). The second interview had SQL. My lunch interview went a little awkward because my interviewer decided to throw a probability based puzzle out of the blue in the last 5 minutes and I couldn't solve it in time.
Post lunch, everything went quite smooth, I was asked a forecasting based case, about Holt-winters method and ARIMA.
3 days after interviewing, I got a call where the HR started off by saying "The team really liked your background and experience and were impressed by you BUT, have decided to not move ahead"
When I asked for feedback, there was none given to her. So after around 9 weeks in the process, felt a tad devastated to get a reject, I had invested a lot of time and preparation for Amazon.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
We need to sign an NDA, this means the high level questioning above is it.
There are three rounds in total. The process begins with a coding round, followed by the main interview loop, where you will meet the team and discuss technical skills, experience, and fit.
First round is fun, second round, which is also the final round involved 5 sessions, with different focus. For some sessions, not be able to present my story completely, time was tight, and interviewers were rushing.
Thrilled to have accepted the offer — the process was tougher than I expected. The first round was primarily technical, where I tackled an A/B testing design question that required detailed metrics and sample size calculations. Later, I faced a SQL query challenge focused on tracking customer purchases over consecutive months. Funny enough, I had spent quite some time on PracHub digging into similar case studies, which really helped me approach these problems confidently. The final round included behavioral questions, and I felt well-prepared overall.