I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Austin, TX) in Oct 2020
Interview
HR interview Manager interview 5 interviews including with a bar raiser The interview process was nice. People are nice and kind as well. My recruiter was really helpful. She answer all the questions and gave me lot of tips on how to prepare for interviews.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Diego, CA) in May 2022
Interview
I had multiple phone interviews. In the final stage, it was a video call where I spoke to four mechanical engineers who worked as ontologists at different stages in their careers. I was asked a variety of behavior as well as technical questions regarding Alexa.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you improve Alexa? How would you have Alexa answer the questions"Who won?" From what sources of data would you have Alexa pull infromation to answer the question "Who won?"
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2022
Interview
Recruiter reached out on screen, phone interview w/ team member, recruiter prep calls, 6 hr virtual onsite w/ 2 tech components. 5 different interviewers, all pleasant and encouraging. Did not like info I got about the position from hiring manager so I lost interest after the 2nd of 6!! hours. On-call component to this job, w/ a pager as if you're a doctor. Also mandatory in office a few days per week. No thank you.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
chosen from a bank of Leadership Principles questions, recruiter will tell you which ones to focus on. tech components consisted of building ontology/taxonomy w/ unstructured data they give you, and also interpreting a boolean search string. all done live w/ no prep and little time. felt like a pop quiz.