J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Tokyo) en janv. 2021
Entretien
I was contacted by a recruiter about an opening in Amazon. The whole process was long and a very confusing. I asked them to submit an application on my behalf, they got back to me and asked me to directly apply from a link they will provide on Amazon's jobs website. After I submitted the application there was no news until a few weeks later. I got an email indicating that I was not shortlisted for interview, however a few week later I got a message from my recruiter that Amazon wants to invite me for the first interview.
The interview took place and I got the final notice after a week that Amazon won't be moving forward with my application. The interview questions were exactly the same ones that can be searched online and there is a lot of tips on how to answer them.
This interview is probably the only interview that I have spent hours preparing for but unfortunately the outcome was not to my satisfaction.
There was an interviewer who was asking the questions, very professional. There was also a person who was just listening (probably the person whom Amazon calls bar-raiser).
The interview on its own was very well organized but the process to reach that point was not.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Why are you applying for this role?
Why do you want to change jobs?
Could you share an experience where you worked with a tight deadline?
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.
Questions d'entretien [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.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Entretien
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.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (New York, NY)
Entretien
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