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Updated May 20, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted May 20, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2012 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
I was contacted by a recruiting manager at Amazon who set up the phone interview time and told me who I would be speaking with.
I spoke with the head developer in the group I was applying for. He was very easy to talk to and positive.
As this was a technical position there were questions about how to write SQL code. He wanted the exact code to write down, not just an general explanation of what you would do in the proposed situation. He let me take my time and was very encouraging, which was nice. It was a very pleasant phone interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted May 10, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 in Bangalore (India) (took a day)
The Interview was the First telephonic and First interview overall of my application for BA position of GPS team.
most of the questions are like: tell me a situation's
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You went out of your job desc and did some thing good
You handled a non co-operative team member
You faced some tough scenario.
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The quality of the questions are really awesome living upto the Amazon Bar.
But ,the Interviewer looks like a bit Prejudiced..He is not trying to understand the candidate.
He was inclined to hear some hi-fi vocabulary than correctly exploring the candidate.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted May 3, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 2+ weeks)
Applied online. HR Manager contacted for a telephonic interview.
1. First telephonic interview consisted of mainly questions on why you want to shift from existing firm to amazon and were looking for fit. Few case questions on transportation, operational metrics and shipments scheduling. Lasted for around 45-50 mins and after that HR called to confirm for another telephonic interview.
2. Second telephonic interview was with a lady fresh out of college and had been working just for over a month with them. She was inexperienced with interviewing and kept on asking why amazon and why you want to leave you present job - for more than 30 mins and kept on badgering on same point again and again. I don't know when did leaving a job and changing profile became such an issue. Then she asked couple of case questions on logistics and package scheduling. She herself wasnt sure what to ask and kept on babbling majority of time.
No reply and when contacted HR for update their standard negative reply arrived. Its a good idea to have discussion with your would-be peers but juveniles shouldnt be given opportunity to decide someone's career prospects.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 30, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in Hyderabad (India) (took a day)
Recruiter made a couple of calls prior to confirm my availability for the interview, When I arrived at the site, I am impressed by their hospitality.
I was asked to take up a written test which lasted for about 2 hours. When its complete, They gave me the feedback within 10 minutes.
The second round of interview was 1:1 with another analyst on couple of business reporting scenarios (SQL). After its done, I got a break of 1 Hour for lunch
The third round of interview was 1:1 with another analyst on couple of data loading strategies. Looks like this guy got a little bit of ego
The fourth round was 1:1 with the manager, evaluating my attitude and couple of questions on SDLC and project architectures. Later after that, I was asked to leave for the day & wait for the feedback.
After 1 week I got the reply saying
We hope you are doing fine! It was really wonderful to talk with you recently and we appreciate the time you spent with Amazon.
Unfortunately, we are unable to take your candidature further, at the moment. However, your credentials are extremely impressive and we wish to retain your details on our active database. We shall get back to you as soon as another similar opportunity opens up.
We wish you luck in your future endeavors and thank you once again for your interest in Amazon.com
Interview Questions
Ex: A product book if ordered with quantity 3, Then i should get the output as 3 rows with each record having quantity 1.
Hint: oracle partitioning
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Personality Test, a Skills Test and a 1:1 Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 26, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)
They are very responsive to online applications. I didn't expect a huge company like this to call me back pretty soon after my application. And the system is good, the HR could pull out the schedule of the interviewer directly without asking around and schedule the time for the interview. However the interviewer didn't seem to care about what I was saying, distracted all the time. Questions asked were like a format that applies to everyone, not specifically for the position. And he was a bit rude.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 6, 2012
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 (took 3 days)
Had two phone interviews each lasting about 45 min then a face to face interview which lasted a full day. Met with eight people from different departments
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Group/Panel Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 13, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Seattle, WA (took 5 weeks)
Interviewed for a business analyst position in Seattle. I was very disappointed by the interviewers and the overall process. From the first two interviews, I sensed that the interviews had very big egos, but gave it a chance by going to the in-person interviews. There, I was met with more egotistical people who unfortunately were condescending at times and made it seem as if anyone working for Amazon.com was a genius and that person should count their blessings that Amazon.com thought they were "good enough." I still love the company, but was very, very disappointed by the quality of the people that worked there. Also, when they finally told me no, the recruiter basically was laughing at me since no one else had called me yet and that he was the first one - very professional.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 7, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Luxembourg (Luxembourg) (took 2 months)
After an online application, a HR person has contacted me per email to ask me to do a homework. There was an Excel table with a lot of data numbers inside and excel sheets. In the end it was a PIVOT table to prepare. Additionally, with sending back the homework I had to state the time spent for doing the homework. 2 weeks later I had an interview with a manager, a girl who was newly promoted ans spoke weird english (i guesss with some Irish or Scottish accent), she asked me a numerical reasoning test on telephone, then a brain teaser followed. 2 weeks later I had another interview with 1 Polish team member, who even tested my Polish (?). She asked if I worked with SQL and Excel. I was one of the last 2 candidates for the position, and they declined without even explaining the reasons why the other candidate was better. I was friendly and asked them per email, but no one ever came back to me. Very unprofessional. In Germany this would be considered as disrespect, and no company does it. THey are very long and slow in desicion making and reacting, which should be no thte case for a distance retailer, especially such as amazon.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Background Check, a Skills Test, an IQ/Intelligence Test and a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted Nov 22, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 1 week)
a couple case/scenario questions to test your actual experience, which was really good.
i think it will either push you to the front of the pack, or left behind. but its a good set of practical questions.
they don't really mention much about the work culture, but it sounds pretty relaxed and they are flexible.
i went through 2 phone interviews, first a director, then my supervisor/mgr that im reporting to.
communication and interview process was really quick, they move right along the process and sift through the interviewees within a short time frame. but it shows that they are aggressively looking for people to fill up the openings, but it also concerns me that there might be churning going on at the division.
but for the younger folks, i think this would be good since they will keep giving you new projects to work on.
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Negotiation Details
thru a recruiter, so not much there.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Business Analyst at Amazon.com
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 3 months)
Everything other candidates say about the overall interview process is true.
In my case the phone interviews (3 rounds) went pretty well. Amazon does like digging deeper into questions. Focus was more on what you have done challenging in the past and how your recommendations were used in terms of tactics. They like taking detailed notes on laptop or atleast give the perception!
In person interviews are very different from what I have encountered with other companies. It is chaotic to say the least. Looks like interviewers are put on schedule last minute. I could not even find out who I was reporting to! Some of the interviewers looked very distracted and disinterested in the whole process.I would say some of the interviewers are snooty. No role clarity.
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