Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon
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I was interviewed for the Business Analyst Summer Intern position for Herndon, VA AWS office and I managed to answer all the questions neatly as I was well prepared about business oriented questions, Amazon leadership principles and everything mentioned on my resume. It lasted for an hour and towards the end of a call the manager said that It would be great to have in their team and asked questions about how I will commute to work etc. I told her I can relocate. Then she said that I will hear back from the recruiter within 3 business days. I was happy and I was hoping for a good news as It went very smoothly. But after 5 business days I didn't receive any email or call. Then I sent an email asking for a feedback but recruiter never replied on time saying she has been busy with work and bla bla stuff. My job application status was under consideration so I kept sending mails for getting a feedback. Finally after sending around 5-6 emails, I received an email on 16th day saying the already hired somebody else. I am very much disappointed with the way they handled this process and wasted so much of my time. I have heard that Amazon never values their employees from their other employees but now I have actually experienced it by my own. Keeping candidates waiting is the worst thing and major flaw in a recruitment process. I hope the recruitment team reads this feedback and improve their standard. I am aware that handling too many applications is not easy but since they have huge recruitment team, they should know how to handle this. Extremely disappointing. They don't value the applicants at all. Fortune 500 rankings could be misleading sometimes.
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Amazons leadership principles in terms of my experience, strengths, challenges faced, academic project questions, some other tech questions
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Hyderabad)
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Easy.
Questions were mostly from sql - Basic to medium level
Topics were Group By, joins, window functions etc.
Basic python knowledge with libraries like pandas, numpy etc. They also ask about projects you have worked on.
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Questions were mostly from sql - Basic to medium level
Topics were Group By, joins, window functions etc.
Basic python knowledge with libraries like pandas, numpy etc.
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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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.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en 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.