I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2011
Interview
Employee referred resume to HR person. HR person emailed to schedule phone interview with member of team. Interviewer called on scheduled day/time for 45min phone interview.
Tips: Amazon wants to see your customer-centric approach to everything - whether pricing or product feature decision-making. They also want to see proactive, initiative-taking, entrepreneurial approach. You have to sound smart, upbeat, and cool. Sense of humor, positive attitude are a must.
People are very smart, friendly, and want you to succeed in interviews because they really want good people. Interviewers are prepared with questions that find out about you and ask intelligent and questions that are appropriately challenging for the position, and don't ask gotcha questions.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
How do you think Amazon may have come up with the $80 fee for the Amazon Prime membership program? - this is a classic pricing question.
Specifically asked about particular job roles and asked to elaborate on things on my resume. For e.g. tell me more about this role and responsibility. What, how, why did you do x, y, or z tasks.
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mention a time when you could give the customer what they asked for ?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Jun 2026
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A time you had to mediate a conflict between two stakeholders. A time you had to dig deep into the data.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when you had to take a risk or make a decision with incomplete information.