I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Coventry, Inglaterra) in May 2021
Interview
Probably the worst interview experience I have come across. Interviewer was late and rushed through the interview. It was with an HR employee that clearly didn't understand the mechanics of finance. In fact, it seemed that rather than listening to what I was saying, she was waiting for me to say buzz words to tick her boxes. When I asked questions at the end, it was clear that she would have preferred an interview to end without any questions :D a bit of a joke for a 55-60k position but that's what you get from a huge/profitable company - they treat you as a business enabler rather than a human being. That's the vibe I got from the interviewer and that's how she made me feel.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Loads of competency questions. Tell me about a time when you had to get accross a complex message to a non-finance colleague?
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Madrid) in Feb 2021
Interview
1) I applied online via Amazon Jobs and got an email to schedule a call with a recruiter. The first call was 45 minutes going briefly through my resume and then asking example based questions.
2) Two weeks later interview with hiring manager via Amazon Chime. Briefly introduced her experience and the job. Then started with example questions. "A time when you strongly disagreed with someone in your past experience" - "Example where you were in an ambiguous situation with little data and take a decision with a certain risk". Both with follow up questions.
3) A week later got an interview with someone from the hiring manager team. Again example questions.
4) Had to write an essay based upon an example "What is the most inventive or innovative thing you have done?" "Write about a judgment call you have made
recently – i.e. in the last 12 months – that could not be analyzed beforehand". They gave me 5 days to send it back and was analyzed during the "Loop" interview again with the hiring manager.
5) Couple of days later got an email to schedule 5 45-60 minutes interviews "The Loop" which you can either take them in a single day or in two consecutive days. I chose the latter.
The participants where managers from related departments and one senior manager who was the "bar raiser" (he was indicated as this by the scheduler). All. asked me example questions based on the 14 leadership principals. Some asked me a couple of questions, others 5 or 6. They all scrolled through a list of questions they had and took notes of my examples.
6) A week passed and got no response so emailed the scheduler if she had feedback from my interviews. A minute after got an email from a the lead recruiter asking for a call the same day. She told me some of my answers were good, which fitted with the some of the leadership principles but others don't, some of the examples given were repetitive (even if different people asked my the same questions) and not good enough, so they were fearful of hiring me.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2019
Interview
Three phone interviews followed by a sample essay and on-site series. Prompt and courteous. But you have to be patient since scheduling interviews take time. It was exhaustive and many repetitive questions.