J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Luxembourg) en août 2011
Entretien
After an online application, a HR person has contacted me per email to ask me to do a homework. There was an Excel table with a lot of data numbers inside and excel sheets. In the end it was a PIVOT table to prepare. Additionally, with sending back the homework I had to state the time spent for doing the homework. 2 weeks later I had an interview with a manager, a girl who was newly promoted ans spoke weird english (i guesss with some Irish or Scottish accent), she asked me a numerical reasoning test on telephone, then a brain teaser followed. 2 weeks later I had another interview with 1 Polish team member, who even tested my Polish (?). She asked if I worked with SQL and Excel. I was one of the last 2 candidates for the position, and they declined without even explaining the reasons why the other candidate was better. I was friendly and asked them per email, but no one ever came back to me. Very unprofessional. In Germany this would be considered as disrespect, and no company does it. THey are very long and slow in desicion making and reacting, which should be no thte case for a distance retailer, especially such as amazon.
The interview process includes a SQL test, an initial recruiter call, and a final five-round loop featuring technical questions and discussions focused on Amazon leadership principles with different team members.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
They asked a key question focused on both technical depth and culture fit: how you apply your skills to solve real problems, along with examples demonstrating alignment with Amazon’s leadership principles.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Entretien
Interviewed for Business Analyst role at Amazon and honestly the process felt exhausting and impersonal.
The interviewers seemed far more focused on checking boxes against the 14 Leadership Principles than actually understanding the candidate or having a genuine conversation. Almost every question was another version of a STAR behavioral scenario, even when it barely related to the actual role.
The process felt extremely rehearsed and rigid. There was little effort to make the candidate feel comfortable or valued, and it often felt like they had already decided the outcome before the interview even started.
Technical and analytical depth barely mattered compared to how perfectly you could package stories into Amazon’s preferred format. If you don’t have polished STAR stories memorized for every possible situation, the process can feel unnecessarily difficult and draining.
Overall, one of the most mentally exhausting interview experiences I’ve had.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (New York, NY)
Entretien
The basic STAR format, but the team was not clear about what they were looking for. The recruiter was not very responsive and took a long time to schedule the calls
Meilleures entreprises pour « Rémunération et avantages » près de chez vous