Amazon Interview Process Timeline

Step 1: Screening call with HR or Internal Recruiter

Step 2: Interview with hiring manager

The Top Amazon Interview Questions

Step 3: Writing Test

Engineering and Technical Interviews

Interview Preparation Checklist for Technical Interviews

Step 4: Final “Loop” Interview

Who is the Bar Raiser?

Step 5: Hiring Meeting

Step 6: Offer Meeting

Step 7: Reference Check

Tell me about a time when you didn’t have enough data to make the right decision. What did you do? What path did you take? Did the decision turn out to be the correct one?

Tell me about a strategic decision you had to make without clear data or benchmarks. How did you make your final decision? What alternatives did you consider? What were the tradeoffs of each? How did you mitigate risk?

Tell me about a time when you made a difficult decision with input from many different sources (customers, stakeholders, partner teams, etc.). What was the situation and how did you arrive at your decision? Did the decision turn out to be the correct one? Why or why not?