I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2020
Interview
A recruiter reached out to me via email requesting an interview for a different position than was applied. Since it was Amazon I was thrilled. A few days later I had an Chime interview with the hiring manager. A day later I recieved an email saying I advanced to the virtual interview which consisted of 5 hours of interviewing with others on the team as well as business partners. I was extremely prepared so the interview seemed pretty easy. Basic behavioral questions surrounding the Leadership Principals mostly based on Analytical experiences with data and process improvements. Definitely have about 3 stories prepared on a time when you deep dived into data, 3 stories on making a mistake, 3 stories on difficult business partners, and 3 stories on a time when someone didn't deliver and you had to push back
Tell me about a time when you made a mistake.
Tell me about a time you improved a process.
Tell me about a time when you had to deep dive into data.
Tell me about a time when you had to push back on a business partner.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Luxemburgo) in Aug 2020
Interview
I went through the entire interview process for a senior financial analyst role at AWS Luxembourg from July-September 2020. All rounds were by phone or by Amazon Chime because of COVID.
I was referred through an employee at AWS. The first round was a quick phone screening with the HR, more of a fit and general motivation interview. Second review was a 1 hour phone call with the hiring manager which was entirely focused on reciting situations with some of the Amazon Leadership Principles.
Third and final round consisted of 5 back-to-back interviews with different team members. All of them were Amazon Leadership Principles focused.
Until this point of time, my experience was quite good and it was great practice for me preparing for those grueling Amazon interviews. Unfortunately, it went a bit downhill from there. Inspite of repeated emails, I did not hear the result of my interviews for almost 2 weeks while Amazon policy is a turnaround time of usually 3-5 working days. Eventually, my referrer had to message the recruiter internally for me to have a courtesy call. I was told that the main reason I didn't get through is that I repeated some of my situations with different interviewers and therefore there were concerns over the breadth of my experience. So my main advice to future candidates would be to try to provide different examples for the different questions even though you may feel that the same example responds well to different situations.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard situation based questions based on the 14 amazon leadership principles
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Nashville, TN) in Sep 2020
Interview
Applied and heard back within 4 days. Had first interview with hiring manager and it went pretty well I thought. I did not hear a no from HR, but was offered a second interview except for a financial analyst II role which I am interviewing for now.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when a project you were working on changed course. What did you do?