J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris plus de 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Bengaluru) en juil. 2016
Entretien
I got a call from recruiter who saw my profile on a job portal. The entire process was quite long 2.5 to 3 months but the interactions with all interviewers were pretty interesting and good.
Since this was my first interview at Amazon, I read a lot about company, culture and people. Do that it helps.
I had:
2 telephonic rounds (hiring manager and skip level manager)
6 On-site interviews (Includes Bar raiser round)
1 Document writing/Case study
Tips:
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Amazon has 14 leadership principles and they believe everyone hired is a leader. They evaluate candidates to identify if the candidate displays their leadership principles.
Before interview revisit your entire career and think of various interesting/challenging things you have done, problems you faced and how you overcame those.
Prepare more than 1 example for every situation, by prepare i mean structure your thoughts.
You can't fake it so be real, if you haven't faced a situation interviewer is asking about be honest and share that you haven't come across the same yet and infact that would be a very good learning experience.
I followed STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) methodology to structure my thoughts and answer each question.
Take time before you start answering each question, interviewers are very mature and understand you need time to grasp the question, revisit your experience and answer it.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
--Past work experience details, immediate last role, its impact and why i think this role at amazon is a
good career choice for me?
-- Situation when you failed (Tip: It is important to highlight here that what did you learn from it?)
-- Situation where you had to launch a product where you had pressure to launch, what
compromises you made?
-- Significant professional failure
-- Challenging situation, what you did and why?
-- A time when you had to do a quikfix to stop a problem's magnitude, what did you do and how?
-- Handled a difficult team member?
-- Did something beyond your role but good for customer
-- Had to make a gut call and decision without sufficient data
-- Had a great idea but had to convince team to execute.
-- A time when you had to go against your management's decision
It had 6 rounds- heavily focussed on leadership principles. they really do cross question almost every other example.......... You get multiple interviewers across the organisation. I thought- the questions were repetitive after one point.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Mention a time when you could give the customer what they asked for ?
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon en juin 2026
Entretien
No HR screen; you answer those questions over email. You do a ridiculous project simulation where you answer emails. Paradoxically it’s interesting yet cheesy at the same time. Very unique but not that difficult. Then the first real interview. Rarely with the direct hiring manager; usually someone else in the org but not this direct team. So it’s useless to research the department. In fact, it’s better to prepare your strong STAR examples. They probe deep, which is fine. They heavily expect numbers. The more you can spout out random numbers (it’s okay, no one will verify) the better. The final round is more of the same — Just more STAR interviews, 2 per session, 4 sessions total. The people in this round are even more critical and harsh than the previous rounds. All done by people who have worked here for 5+ years and have never left — or if they did they came from another FANG company. So they’re all typically arrogant and jaded and negative or on the way to getting there. Finally they all have this weird verbal communication style where they just talk on and on like they expect you to interrupt them — but it’s an interview so you have to be polite can’t interrupt them. So like what the heck.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
A time you had to mediate a conflict between two stakeholders. A time you had to dig deep into the data.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon
Entretien
1. Initial Screening: It begins with a recruiter sync.
2. The "Loop": It's a 5-to-6-round panel interview focusing on deep technical skills, system design, leadership principles, or domain expertise depending on the role.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when you had to take a risk or make a decision with incomplete information.