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Updated May 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Aug 2, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)
Essentially they are scenario-based interviews whereby they set-up a scenario and ask specific questions within the scenario. However, be forewarned most all questions are Kobayashi Marus. For example, they place constraints on each scenario which makes it impossible to reach a correct answer.
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Reason for Declining
Their pay is lower than industry, and they expect you to work their for (1) the brand, and (2) they seen to think by offering stock grants will bring you in. However, almost every review of working there is negative, couple this with low pay, and it does not seem worth it.
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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 Feb 28, 2010 — 2 of 2 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2008 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)
First round interview with the hiring manager, followed by 2 full onsite loops with 2 different groups and 8 different interviews.
The style was behavioural and case based.
Behavioral questions were standard questions that most other reviewers describe.
Case based were very focused on the Amazon website, pricing strategy and numerical analysis around how to improve the Amazon business.
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Other Details
The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Background Check.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 1, 2010 — 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 Apr 2009 in Slough, Berkshire, South East England, England (United Kingdom) (took 4+ weeks)
I was initially approached by a recruiter who found my profile on LinkedIn. This was followed by 2 phone interviews with the line manager and a manager from another team. The interviews contained questions about fit/experience based as well as pricing questions - how would you increase sales without reducing margins, for example.
The final interview was in the Amazon offices. It included an hour long excel test using data to set up merchandising for the product line. There was also a behavioral interview from HR.
The biggest turnoff was the Amazon offices in Slough. I would not recommend the commute or the town to anyone. I've never seen another company choose choose such a shabby office in a commuter park. It was definitely not for me.
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Other Details
I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jan 25, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 2010 (took a day)
I guess the whole recruitment is controlled by European head quarter
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Dec 18, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Apr 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 5 weeks)
4 phone interviews with HR, Manager, 2 peers. One entire day spent at main office with 7 in person interviews. Manager, and other senior team members who I would be working with and one VP. Each about 45 minutes to 1 hour. No questions about my background or experience. Each person had about 4 situational questions to ask. I thought some were odd. Some required math skills. They were friendly but it was intense. I walked away with absolutely no indication of how I did or if the answers were what they wanted to hear. The surroundings were modest and not very well kept. I expected the offices to be nicer. Perhaps when they move to their new headquarters in a year or two things will improve.
Interview Questions
How would you decide what product to put in each DC
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Product Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Nov 22, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Jun 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)
The people I talked to are smart. The onsite interview was quite exhausting. I talked to 6 people within 4.5 hours. Interview still went on over lunch. Some of the interview questions were tough and hard to prepare in advance as they asked for my opinions on product/marketing strategies or my thought process in analyzing data for business decisions when I only had a few seconds to think.
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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 Mar 25, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Dec 2008 in Seattle, WA (took 3 days)
Amazon likes to put candidates in small little rooms (what I think of as interrogation rooms) and grill them all day. (In reality, these are their standard meeting rooms.) Amazon is exceedingly data-centric, and for positions like the one I was interviewing, it is important, but for a Product Management position, I think it's stressed too heavily. I was interviewed by developers about algorithms at one point!
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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 Mar 19, 2009
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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 2009 in Seattle, WA (took 1 week)
Was contacted initially by HR. HR was very friendly and responded promptly to any of my inquiries during the interview process. I was asked some basic questions by HR, then had a phone interview scheduled with the hiring manager. Unfortunately my phone interview had to be rescheduled a couple of times over a month without much notice. After I had the interview, the hiring manager felt I was a better fit for another position, I was referred to another hiring manager. I had a phone interview with that hiring manager, and think they were looking for someone a little more technical.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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