Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 2 meses. Fui entrevistado pela Amazon (Paris) em fev. de 2018
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The process was highly disappointing for a company such as Amazon. I applied on the website, and was quickly invited to do a simple test on business skills. The HR representative then contacted me to schedule a phone interview, and that's when it went off tracks. She delayed several times the interview, sometimes by warning me one hour before, sometimes by sending me an email with a false excuse 3 or 4 hours later. When I finally passed it I was invited to do another Excel test and 3 interviews. The interviews went great but the HR woman came back to me (2 days later than she was supposed to, after I sent her several emails because I needed the answer quickly) to tell me that I didn't get the internship because I had failed the Excel test and hadn't a profile "analytical enough" for the job. While I have no problem accepting that I wasn't the right one for this position, I talked intern currently occupying the position and he didn't knew anything about excel at the beginning of the internship. Whereas I am an engineer (which is quite rare for this kind of positions), and know how to use Excel perfectly, even VBA, and how to make SQL requests in a database. The decision just didn't make any sense, and I am very happy to go elsewhere.
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Pergunta 1
A lot of very specific questions where you will have to come up with an example of your past experience and give a lot of details. Example: can you tell me about a time you had to make a decision without having all the data you needed?
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.
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Pergunta 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.
Candidatei-me online. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Amazon (Seattle, WA).
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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.
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Amazon (New York, NY).
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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