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Tell me about the worst employee you ever hired Tell me about the best employee you ever hired Tell me how you would approach development of a greenfield project where all the work as an open slate, and you had a list of features to be delivered in 6 months Tell me about a project you started where halfway through, you realized you made the wrong decision Tell me about a time when one of your employees did something you disagreed with. Tell us about a time when you had to work through multiple layers in an organization.
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Feb 17, 2016

Tell me about the worst employee you ever hired Tell me about the best employee you ever hired Tell me how you would approach development of a greenfield project where all the work as an open slate, and you had a list of features to be delivered in 6 months Tell me about a project you started where halfway through, you realized you made the wrong decision Tell me about a time when one of your employees did something you disagreed with. Tell us about a time when you had to work through multiple layers in an organization.

The phone interview began with a general discussion about the position, the company (Amazon), and my background. This was followed with a test question, asking what would I do if you was in charge of a web-based e-commerce company selling shoes online. In this hypothetical scenario, the marketing dept ran an ad for a few products offering 2-for-1. The website had slowed to a crawl, but overnight had returned to normal. What would I do?
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Dec 17, 2013

The phone interview began with a general discussion about the position, the company (Amazon), and my background. This was followed with a test question, asking what would I do if you was in charge of a web-based e-commerce company selling shoes online. In this hypothetical scenario, the marketing dept ran an ad for a few products offering 2-for-1. The website had slowed to a crawl, but overnight had returned to normal. What would I do?

Mostly leadership principle questions or behavioral questions. You can google it to find out many. Most of the questions are negative to start with, such as you want to accomplish things, but failed; how to manage your team member with bad performance etc. Technical questions like how to handle calls between clients and REST API services with increased volumes. It's going deeper and deeper once you answered it. Can't say any more here.
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jan 20, 2019

Mostly leadership principle questions or behavioral questions. You can google it to find out many. Most of the questions are negative to start with, such as you want to accomplish things, but failed; how to manage your team member with bad performance etc. Technical questions like how to handle calls between clients and REST API services with increased volumes. It's going deeper and deeper once you answered it. Can't say any more here.

All the questions started with 'tell me about a time when', then the whole series of questions more or less sounded trite and out of a book. The only technical question was a relational database question which you can study for online.
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Software Development Manager

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Feb 9, 2019

All the questions started with 'tell me about a time when', then the whole series of questions more or less sounded trite and out of a book. The only technical question was a relational database question which you can study for online.

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