Content Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.8% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Content Manager roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Content Manager according to 3 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 40%
One on one interview: 40%
Presentation: 20%
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
Applied for a position and was contacted several months later. Experience with recruiter was average. We never spoke in person and there were long periods of silence. Had two 45 minute phone interviews followed by a loop several weeks later over video. There was also a math test involved for some strange reason.
I respect the rigor of the process and their dedication to their leadership principles but the whole thing is very cold and seriously put me off. They ask zero questions about you, your career interests, or anything that might have to do with you as an individual. I didn't expect hugs or anything but their utterly humorless approach the whole thing really undermines their whole work hard, have fun line. They were very stiff and overly concerned with their notes and scripts.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in May 2014
Interview
If Amazon wants to begin the interview process with you a recruiter reaches out to you via email to see when you are available for a phone interview. Once the interview is scheduled you will receive the call and you will be asked three or four different questions over the course of a half hour. These questions usually ask for a specific example from your work history, like a time when you had multiple tasks and you had to figure out how to prioritize or a time when you went above and beyond to please a customer. You may also get a hypothetical question where you have to explain how you would make it up to a vendor if you messed up their ad space or forgot to post their product during a sale. If they decide not to move forward with you, you will get an email saying so within a business week. If all goes well you will be brought in for the loop interview. A recruiter will call you and give you some advice specific to your department and will also begin discussions regarding your salary. When you go in for the loop interview you will meet with five to seven different interviewers, one at a time, who will each ask you three or four questions that focus on one of the leadership principles listed on Amazon's careers site. The interviewers like to hear specific data and numbers so the more detail you can get into without being longwinded the better. After your interviews are done the team gets together to discuss their notes and make a decision. Within a few days you'll get another call from the recruiter who called to give advice and start the salary discussion. They will either give you good news or bad news. Unfortunately, if it's bad news they are not allowed to share feedback.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I was asked, "If you are responsible for sending out a mass email advertising our new product, what would the subject, email body, and target audience look like?"
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Jun 2014
Interview
Reached out by a recruiter via LinkedIn. Contacted by a different recruiter to set up interview. Interviewed with a person with the same exact title of the position I was applying for - but for a different department/category.
In the email, I was told to prepare for the phone interview, have questions ready, and be prepared to talk about my resume.
The phone interview breakdown:
1. Tell me about your resume
Questions:
1. What are some things you think we can improve on for the homepage for your category/department?
2. If a company came to you and asked how you'd promote them if they paid you x dollars, what would you say and do?
3. If a company came to you with a $500k advertisement offer to be placed on the front page of Amazon, would you take it. Why and why not?
4. How would you measure expected revenue from product X that will release in 6 months?
5. What is your biggest accomplishment to date?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
When asked about how I would measure future revenue for X product, I thought it was a pretty simple question so I didn't understand what he was looking for. I overthought the question - because I felt advertisement, building the hype of the product, and product familiarity all came into play in addition to similar products that sold in the past.