I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Amazon in Dec 2020
Difficult interview
Application
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon in Nov 2015
Interview
I applied online and first heard back roughly two months later. The first round is a 30-45 minute phone interview, which included behavioral and technical questions. He asked very, very in-depth questions about my experiences, some of which I hadn't considered before. I thought I did pretty poorly, but they ended up inviting me to the second and final round of interviews. Since I wasn't in the Washington area, I had two 45 minute one-on-one phone interviews; the first being all behavioral and situational questions and the second was your explanation of a case study they send two days before that you submit before the interview. All of the interviews were held by employees in the finance department. The case study is manageable if you know what you're doing, but you must make sure you detail all of your assumptions and have good reasoning for them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Product 1 has a $100 price and 25% profit margin, and product 2 has a $70 price and 30% profit margin. How do you determine which product you put on Amazon's website?
Two 45minute back-to-back virtual interviews. Very friendly interviewers who will probe after asking a question. No finance, SQL, P&L, or Excel questions at all; they were all based on their Leadership Principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time you had to take on a "new" role that wasn't what you would do on a regular day. What was it and how did you handle it?
Name a time you noticed an issue that was impacting the team where you took a proactive approach to solve it.