Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 69% positive. To compare, the company-average is 73.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Manager roles take an average of 27 days to get hired, when considering 45 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 17 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Manager according to 45 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 23%
Phone interview: 21%
Personality test: 10%
Skills test: 9%
Presentation: 9%
Background check: 8%
IQ intelligence test: 8%
Group panel interview: 7%
Drug test: 6%
Other: 1%
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Amazon evaluates candidates on its Leadership Principles(LPs). LPs are core to Amazon culture and each interviewer will evaluate on 2-3 LPs.The best part is of the process is that the recruiters usually share the description of the 16 LPs which helps the candidate prepare for the interview.
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Tell me about a situation when you had to take an decision on a project and you did not have enough data around it.What did you do and what was the impact?
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Stockton, CA)
Interview
Really long exams before the interview. Interview was not scheduled quickly and I didn't have a lot of time to coordinate with my current job. They also didn't give a lot off information about what the job actually entailed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is your availability? This seemed very important
The first step, the virtual interview process, was fairly long but easy to navigate and work through, and shortly after, I received an invite to interview in person. However, the location for which they reached out for was for the wrong state.
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Question 1
Manager experience, scenarios where I had to act as a manager
Ghosted me after the interview, and they did not notify me I was no longer under consideration. I manually had to check the job portal to verify job application status after a virtual assessment and interview.