I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (San Francisco, CA) in Dec 2012
Interview
Interviewed with 6 or 7 people, each lasted about an hour. The primary type of question was 'Tell me about a time when...." and it covered several different scenarios such as when I had to make an unpopular decision, had a disagreement with a coworker, had to propose an innovative idea, etc. Then, they dive deeper depending on your answer.
I really enjoyed everyone I met and had a great visit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What metrics did you implement internally to measure the business in a way that's not been done before. Why did you do it and how did it help you?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Nov 2012
Interview
Very nice talent acquisition team. The interviewer started by saying "I have several years of varied and rich experience in ecommerce". Ok, I get it! You are smart!
Weird interview questions.
The interviewer had a fixed answer in his brain. Had difficulty forming questions. The first question, "if you were working for amazon, what would your KRA be?". When asked what was KRA, the interviewer changed it to KPI. When asked to clarify further, the question was changed to "What are your key levers if you were working for for Amazon?". As I understand, levers are what you control and not indicators like Page Views or CTR.
I have not heard back from Amazon yet, but it has left me with a bad taste in my mouth. They need to get some people who need to be trained in conducting interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
More like unexpected ploy: How do you build customer intimacy and then saying this is not the answer for all possible answers from experience and michael porter.