I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2+ months. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Jul 2016
Interview
I got a call from recruiter who saw my profile on a job portal. The entire process was quite long 2.5 to 3 months but the interactions with all interviewers were pretty interesting and good.
Since this was my first interview at Amazon, I read a lot about company, culture and people. Do that it helps.
I had:
2 telephonic rounds (hiring manager and skip level manager)
6 On-site interviews (Includes Bar raiser round)
1 Document writing/Case study
Tips:
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Amazon has 14 leadership principles and they believe everyone hired is a leader. They evaluate candidates to identify if the candidate displays their leadership principles.
Before interview revisit your entire career and think of various interesting/challenging things you have done, problems you faced and how you overcame those.
Prepare more than 1 example for every situation, by prepare i mean structure your thoughts.
You can't fake it so be real, if you haven't faced a situation interviewer is asking about be honest and share that you haven't come across the same yet and infact that would be a very good learning experience.
I followed STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) methodology to structure my thoughts and answer each question.
Take time before you start answering each question, interviewers are very mature and understand you need time to grasp the question, revisit your experience and answer it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
--Past work experience details, immediate last role, its impact and why i think this role at amazon is a
good career choice for me?
-- Situation when you failed (Tip: It is important to highlight here that what did you learn from it?)
-- Situation where you had to launch a product where you had pressure to launch, what
compromises you made?
-- Significant professional failure
-- Challenging situation, what you did and why?
-- A time when you had to do a quikfix to stop a problem's magnitude, what did you do and how?
-- Handled a difficult team member?
-- Did something beyond your role but good for customer
-- Had to make a gut call and decision without sufficient data
-- Had a great idea but had to convince team to execute.
-- A time when you had to go against your management's decision
It had 6 rounds- heavily focussed on leadership principles. they really do cross question almost every other example.......... You get multiple interviewers across the organisation. I thought- the questions were repetitive after one point.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Mention a time when you could give the customer what they asked for ?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
1. Initial Screening: It begins with a recruiter sync.
2. The "Loop": It's a 5-to-6-round panel interview focusing on deep technical skills, system design, leadership principles, or domain expertise depending on the role.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe a time when you had to take a risk or make a decision with incomplete information.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Tokyo) in May 2026
Interview
1. Phone screen with a HR member (30 min)
2. Video interview with a Hiring manager (60 min)
3. Loop interview with 5 members including a bar raiser (60 min each)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Why Amazon
- Why are you changing jobs at this time?
- What are your career aspirations for next?
- Why this particular role at Amazon?
OLP
- Please tell me time when you solve customer's issues which they are not aware of
- Please tell me time you have to dive deep to solve problem
Case study
- How do you improve Amazon's specific features or pages
