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 online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Luxembourg) in Aug 2013
Interview
After I got selected to start the interview process (following a math exam) I had a half an hour conversation with the department's director. The questions were behavioral questions about what I did in former jobs that had to do with this job. I recommend concentrating on Amazon values when telling anecdotes throughout the process.
After that there is a half an hour interview with the HR contact. She asks about reasons to come to Amazon, why you don't like your current employer, salary expectations etc.
After that there are 5 consecutive interviews with people at your division. You are interviewed by peers and directors of other branches. Again, use Amazon values correlating stories in particular data mining and results oriented. After that they will make a decision.
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Question 1
Tell me about a time you had conflicts in the office and how did you solve them. Tell me about a time you failed. Tell me about a time you generated change in your organization
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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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
Interview questions [1]
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?