Solicité el puesto por otro medio. El proceso duró 1 día. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Hyderabad) en mar 2014
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Communication:
They contacted me through linkedin.
Interview process:
First round was telephonic with the hiring manager.He asked on why I was looking for change. He also asked some high level design based questions. At this stage , I was not told about the expectation from the open position, which later caused good amount of discomfort .
Then I was called to have face to face interview. Five rounds were conducted in 3 different buildings spaced almost 10 kilometers apart and I was expected to rush to each building . This shows how Amazon's team work in silo with absolutely zero coordination. It also shows how they treat/going to treat their prospective employees. Interviews were okay'ish in terms of difficulty with often the interviewers not sure what they were looking for from a candidate(this position was purely a people management job).
I understood one thing is at the very least , Amazon wants to grow aggressively in India,but in an very unorganized fashion with no "vision statement" .
Post interview communication :
None. I knew I was not going to make it in the penultimate round as the expectation from the job was not matching my expectation from the new role. But to say the least , the recruiting team should have been a bit more considerate to inform a "no" to me.
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The reasons you are citing for leaving your existing job could be easily mitigated. So why leaving your job ?
Phone screen, 5 1 hour interviews for loop
Each hour was dedicated to 2 LPs. System design was more collaborative than i anticipated which was a pleasant surprise. The phone screen mostly focused on my previous experiences
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Standard LP based scenarios, system design was actual system the team owns
Solicité el puesto a través de la recomendación de un empleado. El proceso duró 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Amazon (Tokio) en feb 2026
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The interview process is straightforward but intense.
First interview was with another Software Dev Manager in the same team. After that the famous loop interview where I had to take 5 interviews in a row over two days ( using paid holidays at work ). Recruiter gave a lot of information about possible questions and helped with materials. However, I had to use same stories few times as the different interviewers asked same questions few times.
Everything is okay, I had a good time during the interviews and it was a good exercise. However, I simply do not understand why they have to call to reject? I am not a customer to be obsessed with. A straight cut rejection via email works better than taking time out of my busy schedule.
If they used this time to share some feedback, that would be useful. If they do not share any reason why I have to continue formal small talk just to get the rejection on my face?
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A time you were driving toward a goal and realized more than halfway in that it may not be the best goal.
Had 1 round of System design interview. I thought the interview went ok, if not bad, it went decently well. Received a rejection response, while asking to apply 6 months later.
