Senior Technical Program Manager applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Technical Program Manager roles take an average of 35 days to get hired, when considering 117 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Senior Technical Program Manager according to 117 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 31%
One on one interview: 25%
Group panel interview: 15%
Skills test: 10%
Presentation: 5%
Personality test: 4%
Background check: 3%
Other: 3%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Apr 2017
Interview
Recruiter approached me via LinkedIn. First level of screening is phone interview for an hour. Final screening had a writing exercise and 5 rounds of in-person interview with panelists at Amazon office.
Tip is to have many different impactful examples for the same scenario as it can be asked multiple times.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Mostly behavioral and scenario based questions like
1. Toughest situation you have faced and how did you overcome?
2. When did u disagree with the entire team and why?
3. How did you manage when a project deadline was missed?
4. Most innovative idea / value add provided.
5. How many teams you have coordinated with in a project? Challenges?
6.Why Amazon?
Final rounds were technical and design questions like
1. Design a payment system.
2. How will you display the last searched items and related items to a user.
it is good experience. The interviewer are polite and respectful. They would ask many questions like "tell me a time when..." and might drill down a bit based on your responses.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a time when you make a short term pain for long term gain for the program.
El proceso es largo, en total son en promedio 7 entrevistas, de las cuales 5 son en loop, lo que significa que estas 5 entrevistas pueden ser el mismo dia, una tras otra, de una hora cada una
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Amazon in May 2026
Interview
Lots of "story telling" they don't care about what you would do. Only "tell me a time you...". They take their time to interview and encourage many many weeks between rounds. The people and interviewers were extremely robotic and don't make it so you want to work there. Their reputation doesn't help either.