I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon
Interview
1. Recruiter Call - wasn't really an interview. Recruiter just outlined the position, made sure this was a right technical fit for the role, and explained the importance of knowing leadership principles and STAR interview technique. I felt that this interview style was a bit insincere, and encourages interviewees to brainwash themselves and their experiences to reflect the leadership principles. They are great principles for any organization to have for sure, but the whole "take your experiences and show leadership principle" process to me felt very insincere. To each their own.
2. Technical Screen - Invite said this would be a live coding session but we didn't code at all. Spent 5 minutes talking about my background. Spent 30-40 minutes technical interview. Spent 5 minutes with a leadership principle question. All hypothetical technical questions. SQL (aggregations, groupby, joins, order by, window funcitons). Tableau (explain specific Tableau features, how would you use Tableau to do a certain type of analysis). Questions were not that difficult, but the interviewer probed deeply. You need to know your stuff.
Job seemed like a grindhouse and I didn't particularly vibe well with the "brainwashing" of leadership principles in the interview process.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Gives a data schema, asks how you would code the solution in SQL. Aggregations tested, joins lightly tested, window function.
The interview process includes a SQL test, an initial recruiter call, and a final five-round loop featuring technical questions and discussions focused on Amazon leadership principles with different team members.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked a key question focused on both technical depth and culture fit: how you apply your skills to solve real problems, along with examples demonstrating alignment with Amazon’s leadership principles.
I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA)
Interview
Interviewed for Business Analyst role at Amazon and honestly the process felt exhausting and impersonal.
The interviewers seemed far more focused on checking boxes against the 14 Leadership Principles than actually understanding the candidate or having a genuine conversation. Almost every question was another version of a STAR behavioral scenario, even when it barely related to the actual role.
The process felt extremely rehearsed and rigid. There was little effort to make the candidate feel comfortable or valued, and it often felt like they had already decided the outcome before the interview even started.
Technical and analytical depth barely mattered compared to how perfectly you could package stories into Amazon’s preferred format. If you don’t have polished STAR stories memorized for every possible situation, the process can feel unnecessarily difficult and draining.
Overall, one of the most mentally exhausting interview experiences I’ve had.
The basic STAR format, but the team was not clear about what they were looking for. The recruiter was not very responsive and took a long time to schedule the calls
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