I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services in Aug 2022
Interview
Around five 1:1 interviews with various people from different organizations in AWS. The last one is with the hiring manager. All interviews are centered around Leadership Principles questions, where the interviewer asks one of pre-defined questions. Some of them have no idea of the role or what it requires. The purpose of the interview is whether you will fit in the Amazon leadership principles and demonstrate them. They are not interested in your background or your view of the role, what you can provide as value, etc,. Overall, quite demotivating process where one is expected to answer questions from a guidebook, asked by random people from Amazon. Did not get the job since I did not provide enough 'data' in my answers. Recommendation : for all your answers, have some numbers ready. They dont need to be real, since the interviewers do not have the capacity or interest in evaluating the numbers, they just wanted some numbers in the answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when you had to action without data.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Kuala Lumpur) in Feb 2025
Interview
The first two stages were okay, I think the last stage of 4 rounds (45 minutes) long panel interview about the Amazon Leadership Principles is the toughest of all rounds. I was lucky that this round I got a TA from Hong Kong and she actually took 45 mins to went thru the interview processes with me and prep me well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time where you went above and beyond for your client to solve the issue and what was the end result ? [Link it to ALP]
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services
Interview
Interviews were challenging, and behavioral based,. There were multiple rounds - important to prepare in advance. Best to space the interviews out, and not to do more than 1 interview a day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Behavioral questions based on the 16 Leadership Principles…
There’s a phone screen and then a loop with about five interviews. It’s based on the star method where you need to answer situational questions that are tied to leadership principles.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you exceeded customer expectations.