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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 24, 2012 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
Employee referred resume to HR person. HR person emailed to schedule phone interview with member of team. Interviewer called on scheduled day/time for 45min phone interview.
Tips: Amazon wants to see your customer-centric approach to everything - whether pricing or product feature decision-making. They also want to see proactive, initiative-taking, entrepreneurial approach. You have to sound smart, upbeat, and cool. Sense of humor, positive attitude are a must.
People are very smart, friendly, and want you to succeed in interviews because they really want good people. Interviewers are prepared with questions that find out about you and ask intelligent and questions that are appropriately challenging for the position, and don't ask gotcha questions.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 20, 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 Jan 2012 (took a day)
Started with questionnaire that I filled in and sent back follow STAR format. Then had a 30 min phone interview with the hiring manage with what are you looking for, what was your best, worst type questions and was invited for an onsite. Met with 8 people in 6 hours with no breaks. Mostly STAR type questions. NO one really seemed happy or excited; they seemed over worked, haggard. They really pushed on why I made decisions.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 14, 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 Seattle, WA (took 2+ weeks)
I was contacted to do two 45 minute back to back interviews. Almost 10% of my school's MBA class was contacted and did the interviews. I was invited for on-site interviews. It was 4 interviews of 45 minutes each. The 3 consisted of situation questions. "If you were the manager of this product what would you do if this happened?" Only 1 of the interviews was conducted by a senior person in the company and had questions such:
-> Tell me which is an ideal culture for you?
-> What do you wanna do now?
-> What is the most important accomplishment?
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 10, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 1+ week)
The HR sent me an email regarding the position and was requested to apply online again.
Then they set up a phone interview back to back on the same day for 45 mins. The response after the interview was prompt. Some one got back to me in 3-5 business days. The interviewers try to make you defend your position. I didn't like the tone of the first interviewer, thought he was a snob.
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- Was asked about a online bad experience and was asked how to remedy it
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 6, 2012
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took a day)
I declined to continue the process after the first interview because the hiring manager was so abrasive and belligerent on the first interview that I knew it wasn't for me. I'm still pursuing other opportunities with Amazon and hopefully the qualities of my first interviewer aren't endemic. I think the company is great but I'd be concerned if there are many more individuals like the one I spoke with.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Dec 26, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
There were 2 phone interviews (one behavioral and one market selection case). HR seemed overworked with most emails going unanswered when you try to contact them prior to your interviews. As one other interviewee had indicated, the scheduling of the flights happened at the very last moment with no communication in-between leaving you clueless on if you will make it to Seattle that day or not. On site interviews were similar in nature to the phone interviews. The questions were very similar to what is already posted here (how would you go about bringing this product to market, how would you price this product etc). Nothing too difficult if you had prepared for case/behavioral questions. All interviewers except one were very friendly and the interviews were conducted very professionally. You are given sufficient time to ask any questions during each interview and all the folks seemed genuine in their replies. However, based on what I saw on interview day (and based on the number of people I ran into at the hotel), Amazon seems to interview an abnormally high number of folks on-site (even from top 5 b schools) for the product manager position and ding a lot of them. That seemed to indicate a total lack of respect for time for all involved.
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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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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Dec 11, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 4 weeks)
Got contacted by a recruiter and after a call with her I got 2 phone interviews scheduled. Each were about 45 minutes long. A few days after the second interview a on-site interview was scheduled. I met with about 7 people from the team, each for 45 minutes. I got the final answer just 24 hours after that, with no reason whatsoever, which is a little disappointing after 4 weeks of interview process. But the whole thing was well organized and interesting.
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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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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Nov 3, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 2 weeks)
Got a call from recruiter and i took 2 phone interviews which consists group member and hiring manager.
each phone interview lasted 50~60 mins.
after the interview, no one got back to me even after i sent numerous emails to the recruiter.
wasn't a pleasure experience.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Oct 24, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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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 2 weeks)
Never applied for a position with Amazon but they must have found my resume through Dice or LinkedIn. Contacted by an internal hiring coordinator via email who stated the hiring manager wanted to speak with me. He then scheduled a phone interview with a member of another team. Questions were mostly about how I would go about doing his job. Without info on resources, company initiatives, etc it was a bit awkward but I made it through and was scheduled for a second phone interview with the hiring manager. During this call he briefly told me about something he had done at Amazon four years ago and asked me how I would have done it. Ages days later I received a form rejection email. I called the recruiter who had initially contacted me for feedback on why the pass and was told that all info was confidential and he couldn't share anything. Overall everything was professional except the rejection process. I was very unimpressed with how they handled it.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Oct 20, 2011
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 1 week)
When the company expresses interest in your capabilities, you will be contacted by a recruiter to briefly discuss the potential role with the company and to schedule an interview with the hiring manager or a team member related to the role. Applicants should anticipate 3-4 interviews (approx. 2 phone and 2 in-person). Phone interviews last approx 60 mins; In-person can range from a couple hours to an entire day, depending on the role
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