I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Manila, Manila) in Aug 2019
Interview
A recruiter messaged me in LinkedIn and asked if I'm interested in pursuing an application with their company. She asked for my resume for paper screening and after passing was given an Excel exam. After the Excel exam, I was asked for my availability for a phone interview. After the phone interview, I was scheduled for a loop interview with 4 Amazonians lasting an hour per interview. Questions revolved mostly on my experience. The on loop interview can be draining.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Rate yourself in Excel from 1 -10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest.
The interview process includes a SQL test, an initial recruiter call, and a final five-round loop featuring technical questions and discussions focused on Amazon leadership principles with different team members.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a key question focused on both technical depth and culture fit: how you apply your skills to solve real problems, along with examples demonstrating alignment with Amazon’s leadership principles.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Interviewed for Business Analyst role at Amazon and honestly the process felt exhausting and impersonal.
The interviewers seemed far more focused on checking boxes against the 14 Leadership Principles than actually understanding the candidate or having a genuine conversation. Almost every question was another version of a STAR behavioral scenario, even when it barely related to the actual role.
The process felt extremely rehearsed and rigid. There was little effort to make the candidate feel comfortable or valued, and it often felt like they had already decided the outcome before the interview even started.
Technical and analytical depth barely mattered compared to how perfectly you could package stories into Amazon’s preferred format. If you don’t have polished STAR stories memorized for every possible situation, the process can feel unnecessarily difficult and draining.
Overall, one of the most mentally exhausting interview experiences I’ve had.
The basic STAR format, but the team was not clear about what they were looking for. The recruiter was not very responsive and took a long time to schedule the calls