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Updated May 3, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Sep 7, 2011 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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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 Sep 2011 in Seattle, WA (took a day)
The recruiter gave me a link to Google Docs page which expired at the right time and did not function where I had to write my code and the interviewer double checked and confirmed that but he wasnt bothered either.
Thats where I was to write my code.
Couple of technical questions like.
1. Convert ascii to integer.
2. Find phone numbers from a file on the filesystem.
3. How would you find info of related products for a particular product ?
4. How would you Project Manage such a project ? what would be the key steps of the plan ?
So basically have neither received yes for next round of tele interview nor have rejected the offer or they have rejected me at the time of writing this.
Now waiting for the next tele round.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Aug 11, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Aug 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 3 weeks)
Initial contact was through email with no mention of the role, etc. I asked to have a job description sent. The job description required in depth coding skills. I emailed the recruiter back and told her I was not interested...hadn't coded in years and didn't want to and probably could not meet their min bar. Was told I would never have to code and the JD was generic. Huh? Ok, I agreed to the first phone interview just to see what they had. I can only describe the first interviewer as an arrogant prick, but civilized about it. Despite what I thought was a horrible experience (I was quite blunt with him and in several instances told him the question he was asking was irrelevant if this wasn't a coding position, etc) I was offered a second phone interview, which I agreed to. This was with the hiring manager and she was quite pleasant. Explained things clearer and added a dimension to the weak explanations I had recieved from first guy. I actually thought that interview went quite well, but in the end was sent an email about a week later indicating I would not be moving to the next stage. They did encourage me to apply for other opportunities, which may or may not be a canned response.
Overall, I was impressed with the fact that the company actually gave me a response rather than leaving me hanging. I've heard alot of horror stories about other companies that are not as considerate. I did get the impression in the Kindle Division (where this position was located) things are very hectic and people are expected to work an insane amount of hours and burn out is high. I wasn't particularly interested in the Company or the role, but really just wanted to see what kind of an offer I could get out of them. Perhaps in the end that showed through and played a part in my loop stopping before the on-site interview.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jul 21, 2011 — 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 Jul 2011 (took 8 weeks)
7 interviews with various members of staff including product managers, program managers and dev managers.
Intense and pretty challenging.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jul 16, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2009 (took 2 days)
Amazon has a very methodical interview process. After the initial phone screen, they have an onsite where a couple of 1:1 interviews are done for the entire day. Every is very professional and respectful. Insightful questions and a genuine interest in trying to understand the skills and experience of the candidate.
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Reason for Declining
Location. Did not want to move away from the bay area to Seattle
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Jul 9, 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 Jul 2011 in Seattle, WA (took 2 weeks)
I had two phone interviews with two software developers. The first one, initially gave me the impression of being quite bored, but other than that it was OK. Second interview was OK as well.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Oct 22, 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 Aug 2008 in Seattle, WA (took 1 week)
The process consisted of 3 phone interviews and an all day onsite interview with multiple employees. The onsite interviews were pretty standard with the exception of interviews with developers. There is an expectation that PM's are highly technical which is fair, but the developers were not particularly good interviewers with questions which tended to be rather obtuse. Even when setting up a complicated scenario, I have an expectation for clarity. Unfortunately, this makes it challenging for an interviewee to respond effectively.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Aug 16, 2010
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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 Aug 2010 in Hyderabad (India) (took 2 weeks)
forwarded resume through friend - employee referral
Recruiter contacted for more details
After a week, Recruter arranged for informational with hiring manager
After a week, phone interview with dev manager
After another week, phone interview with test manager
Now waiting for results and next in person interview.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Mar 13, 2010 — 1 of 2 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 Mar 2010 (took 5 days)
TPM = technical project lead. The program manager part of the title is not what a PMI certified program manager would ever expect.
The whole process is very quick, once you get started. Internal admission is that it can take months to get the first phone call, but after that the process moves very quickly.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 21, 2010 — 1 of 2 people found this helpful
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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 Jun 2009 (took a day)
I had applied for a Technical Program Manager position and got a phone screen from a Director of Program Management.
He asked me questions about my previous product experience in terms of design experience. The interview was very broad and not much in depth.
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I applied In-Person and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Technical Program Manager at Amazon.com
Posted Feb 12, 2010
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 2+ weeks)
I had 2 phone screens. The first one was difficult but went well overall. The interviewer was pleasant and willing to detail questions in a manner that would help him guage my technical depth.
The second interviewer was very vague with his questions and wasted over 30 mins of our time and still did not get what he wanted.
Overall it was an OK experience.
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