Senior Vendor Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 33% positive. To compare, the company-average is 58.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Vendor Manager roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 6 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 33 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Senior Vendor Manager according to 6 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 29%
Phone interview: 18%
Skills test: 18%
IQ intelligence test: 12%
Personality test: 12%
Group panel interview: 6%
Presentation: 6%
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I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in Jul 2014
Interview
I had 2 phone calls, so far out of 3. The first two were with people from HR, they were super nice. As soon as they called we jumped into que questions so dont expect to have previous chat or a chance to connect. Questions were pretty standard, questions about my previous job, experiences, why I want to join Amazon, and why I left my previous jobs, what was the most successfull negotiation, and the most difficult analisis, & one question about pricing.
Interview process is challenging but expected as everything you need to know is available online. They will schedule you with 4 employees from the team or organization you will work with and 1 completely separated from your organization as a "bar raiser". No need to work to impress one specific person, know 12-14 differentiated STAR formatted stories by memory.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time you had to sacrifice short-term gain for long-term success. What did you do? What was the outcome?
3 loops of 45 min interviews with people from different teams I would work together with if I get hired, Standard behavioral questions, 3 to 4 per interview and a few follow-up questions to each answers, follow-up styles differ by the interviewer
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Question 1
Tell me about a time you created a metric to identify a need for change.
Not great. Very first interview had no proper introduction to the role and was not with HR, interviewee went straight into a case study within 5 minutes. Didn't seem interested in my actual work background.
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Question 1
What is one difficult thing you've experienced and overcome?