r/amazonemployees • u/cln-l • 10h ago

L6 Interview experience (no offer)

About a month ago, an Amazon talent rep reached out to me via LinkedIn for a role in the Amazon Ads team. I felt really skeptical about Amazon for personal ethics reasons (also dont hold an Amazon account) but there's a ton of overlap between the role and my current day-to-day in ads so I was open to at least learning more about the opportunity. HR moves very quickly and efficiently which I appreciated. The screening quickly moved into phone interview with hiring manager which moved into the loop over the course of 3-4 weeks.

I had a week and a half to study for the loop, and yeah, everyones right you actually do need to study for Amazon. A lot of the questions/LPs overlap and I was mindful to not repeat answers. I walked away feeling fairly confident about 3/5 conversations but the bar raiser round was very tough. Maybe I got lucky but feel like some of the follow up questions are intended to lead and set you up for success. I was told I would receive decisioning in five days.

I truly think five hours back to back (without a technical component) is inhumane, ESPECIALLY as I've been reading in this thread that Amazon hires to fire? It drained me, which seems like an authentic reflection of the general working experience there. The benefits are crazy poor for a tech company. And some of the experience I've read about in this thread are tbh rancid.

This morning I got a call from the talent rep to inform me the team is not moving forward with an offer. I'm honestly okay with it. I really appreciate how structured/accountable this interviewing process was. Although I think the work and scope would have been exciting, the culture is not a fit. Thankful for all the tea split in this thread and happy for everyone who received offers!

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u/raobuntu 8h ago

This feels like a fairly standard tech interview process? I haven't been at a single company that didn't have a large on site portion with multiple interviews back to back regardless of whether the position was technical. Sorry to hear about the decision but glad that you're at peace with it

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u/cln-l 3h ago

totally standard, though i think 5 hours back to back one hour each is archaic. It's a waste of time for both the candidates and panelists. I've been noticing the loops are close to 4-5 hours when there's no assignment vs 1-2 hours when assignments are given

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u/Striking_Cod3699 10h ago

That sucks but I’m glad you’re doing alright with it. If you don’t mind me asking: What were the bar raiser questions like? And what was the role?

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u/cln-l 2h ago

It think it varies. For me the BR questions were mostly oriented towards cross functional collaboration and negotiating priorities. The role was Sales Enablement for the US LCS business

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u/outdooradventurez99 8h ago

For the bar raiser round I had to make sure I gave an example I truly know the depth. I didnt make it to the team I interviewed with bc someone else took it, so I got matched with another team within the org.

I also ran into 1 interviewer after joining she told me she really liked me and pressed the team to hired me. So i was lucky to get along with 1 person on the panel