Senior Vendor 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 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Vendor Manager roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 112 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 Vendor Manager according to 112 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 24%
Skills test: 12%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 8%
Presentation: 3%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Drug test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Amazon (London, England) in Sep 2017
Interview
8 weeks from submitting application to find out if I even had an interview. Had pretty much forgotten about it. Had 2 phone interviews, then was invited for an assessment day. The process was really weird for a product related role. I understand the importance of their principles, but it becomes nothing to do with the job after 2 hours of phone interviews. They cannot assess product, brand, trends, customer knowledge with these questions. The first interviewer admitted they had been looking for a while- I am not surprised!! The recruitment contact wasn't helpful at all- I asked a couple of simple questions before my 2nd interview and never got any replies. Pretty rude as I had invested a lot of time myself. Then when I was asked to come in to meet with Amazon I said that I had accepted a role elsewhere (it was a full day off needed, with 3-4 interviews I was told)- I then really politely explained that I didn't feel the questions asked so far were creative/ fashion/ trend related at all (They didn't even ask me what trends were key, what brands I like or anything), and that the role wasn't what was really being advertised. They wanted someone who had done design/ buying/ merchandising/ trend/ multi product/ branded/ own brand/ product development/ manufacturing.... then asked for a 2 page business plan as if I were launching a brand. It was about 6 roles in one. Hence they've had the vacancy for months. Shame they never replied, hopefully they might take it on board.
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When have you dealt with a time where you got resistance?
What would you say has been your greatest achievement?
When have you had to turn around a task or project?
Interview process is challenging but expected as everything you need to know is available online. They will schedule you with 4 employees from the team or organization you will work with and 1 completely separated from your organization as a "bar raiser". No need to work to impress one specific person, know 12-14 differentiated STAR formatted stories by memory.
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Tell me about a time you had to sacrifice short-term gain for long-term success. What did you do? What was the outcome?
3 loops of 45 min interviews with people from different teams I would work together with if I get hired, Standard behavioral questions, 3 to 4 per interview and a few follow-up questions to each answers, follow-up styles differ by the interviewer
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Question 1
Tell me about a time you created a metric to identify a need for change.
Not great. Very first interview had no proper introduction to the role and was not with HR, interviewee went straight into a case study within 5 minutes. Didn't seem interested in my actual work background.
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What is one difficult thing you've experienced and overcome?