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 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Vendor Manager roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 112 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Senior Vendor Manager according to 112 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Background check: 8%
Presentation: 3%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2013
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Unless you want every interaction with vendors during your work day to be bloodsport, I don't suggest applying for this role with the Kindle division. Despite whatever Amazon says, it's clear they view publishers not as partners, but as suppliers to squeeze at every step to lower margins.
The actual process was fairly efficient. I had two phone interviews, the last with the hiring manager. I later learned she was a protege of someone described in the book "The Everything Store," an executive who thought that one side always had to win in a negotiation rather than creating value together. We both decided that there wasn't a good fit. But if that culture sounds like fun to you, enjoy!
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The questions were expected for this role, although the hiring manager seemed to expect I would know exactly what metrics Amazon used, despite Amazon being extremely secretive about anything Kindle related.
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.
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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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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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What is one difficult thing you've experienced and overcome?