J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Londres, Angleterre) en juil. 2017
Entretien
Telephone checklist. The recruiter set a time for an Amazon manager to call, requesting a good quality line. I made sure I had a good quality landline on my end. Their manager called with a bad quality line - one of those where it cuts out one side while the other is speaking, it was quite detrimental for the interview. The Amazon manager opened the call with a very bored intonation and continued to be quite bored as he ran through a series of questions that were probably some standard set written out for him. He was looking for specific answers, it was not a conversation it was a checkbox question and see if my answer fitted into one of their "standard" responses. He actually summarized some of my answers by reading back the response he felt most closely fitted. This is not an interview process for anyone but robots, if you think outside the box, don't even bother. They're just looking for same ol' same ol'. I was totally put off.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design the first Amazon website. In ten minutes. Because clearly that's enough time to think through how to build the most successful retail website of all time.
Phone screen, 5 1 hour interviews for loop
Each hour was dedicated to 2 LPs. System design was more collaborative than i anticipated which was a pleasant surprise. The phone screen mostly focused on my previous experiences
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Standard LP based scenarios, system design was actual system the team owns
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Amazon (Tokyo) en févr. 2026
Entretien
The interview process is straightforward but intense.
First interview was with another Software Dev Manager in the same team. After that the famous loop interview where I had to take 5 interviews in a row over two days ( using paid holidays at work ). Recruiter gave a lot of information about possible questions and helped with materials. However, I had to use same stories few times as the different interviewers asked same questions few times.
Everything is okay, I had a good time during the interviews and it was a good exercise. However, I simply do not understand why they have to call to reject? I am not a customer to be obsessed with. A straight cut rejection via email works better than taking time out of my busy schedule.
If they used this time to share some feedback, that would be useful. If they do not share any reason why I have to continue formal small talk just to get the rejection on my face?
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
A time you were driving toward a goal and realized more than halfway in that it may not be the best goal.
Had 1 round of System design interview. I thought the interview went ok, if not bad, it went decently well. Received a rejection response, while asking to apply 6 months later.
