Candidatei-me online. O processo levou 5 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Amazon (Londres, Inglaterra) em set. de 2020
Entrevista
UK London application, emailed me within a week, whole process was 5 weeks.
1) First round: 2 phone interviews, super nice and told me what leadership principles they were asking. 2 leadership principles each x 2-3 questions on each.
2) Second round (would of been an assessment day): 3 video interviews back to back with a SVM, a product manager and who would be by both
(I told them I was limited on time, and got them to split it over 2 days. I needed this as I found it very tiring doing even 3 interviews in day! eg said I could only do 10- 3)
Second day: Had 3 interviews, 45 mins each, repeat your CV for the millionth time for 10 mins, each asked 3 questions about 2 leadership points. 1 x SVM 1X SPM 1x 'roof raiser' which was obvious as she worked in logistics which was nothing to do with my role.
3) Second day of assessment day. 2 interviews, 1x SVM and 1X head of vendor manager.
The SVM role is EXTREMELY data driven these days, I realised in my last 2 interviews it wasn't for me as that's all they wanted. The role is mainly for data and financial analysts, not buying/ merch people. HR actually said to me after the final round how SVM's selected are either financial planners or from a data analyst roles in big finance companies... not from retail. So just to consider this, I would of been so bored in this job coming from buying..
Salary is max 68k plus tonnes of bonus/ share benefits
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
I wrote down every single thing I was asked after each call.. I hope this helps someone:
First call:
1) A time you failed on something? How did I get them to be ok with this? What was the reception? What would I do differently?
2) When I changed a process or had a new idea? How did I get them onboard? How did they react to this idea?
3) How have I convinced a team member of my ideas? What were their concerns? How did I convince them?
4) Something halfway through I saw there was a bigger opportunity than planned?
Second Call:
5) When I overachieved on something? What were the 3 obstacles? How did I convince them?
6) When I dived deep into data to find and answer? What was I trying to find?
Assessment day on video, 1st:
7) Done something to a tight deadline? What decided the change? What would I do differently? How did I get people to do this task? What was the conversation like? How did it all fit together?
8) When I overcame an obstacle? What was the start of the issue? How did I find the issue? Talk me through how you used data to find this?
9) When I did a task I didn't think I could achieve? How did I make it happen?
2nd (Head of SVM, the boss)
10) When I used data to find and fix a problem (some questions are repeated)
11) When I had a complex problem with a big amount of detail to consider? How and where did I find these points?
12) A time when I created a metric? (at this point I realised I didnt want the job!) How did I create it? How did it change the before and after in working?
3rd (Roof Raiser!)
13) A time when a customer was difficult? How did I discover this problem?
14) When I did something that was outside of my remit? How did I get others to get involved?
4th:
15) When your manager asked you to do something you disagreed with? How did you deal with it? What was your approach? What was the result?
16) A time when you wanted to do something but your manager didn't agree? How did you get them onboard? How did I approach it? Did it benefit anyone else?
5th:
17) A new idea to improve productivity and morale on my team? How did it help and what was the result?
18) When I implemented a new process to make it easier for the customer to shop? How did the success get measured? Outside of sales, what else made it successful? How did I get everyone to try it? What would I of done differently?
19) When I thought differently and out of the box and it wasn't agreed with? How did I measure the success of it? How did I save the business money? What were the main challenges?
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Amazon (Seattle, WA).
Entrevista
Interview process is challenging but expected as everything you need to know is available online. They will schedule you with 4 employees from the team or organization you will work with and 1 completely separated from your organization as a "bar raiser". No need to work to impress one specific person, know 12-14 differentiated STAR formatted stories by memory.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Tell me about a time you had to sacrifice short-term gain for long-term success. What did you do? What was the outcome?
Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Amazon (Seattle, WA).
Entrevista
3 loops of 45 min interviews with people from different teams I would work together with if I get hired, Standard behavioral questions, 3 to 4 per interview and a few follow-up questions to each answers, follow-up styles differ by the interviewer
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Tell me about a time you created a metric to identify a need for change.
Not great. Very first interview had no proper introduction to the role and was not with HR, interviewee went straight into a case study within 5 minutes. Didn't seem interested in my actual work background.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
What is one difficult thing you've experienced and overcome?