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 online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Bengaluru) in Dec 2017
Interview
The interview consisted of 6 rounds. The crux of all the rounds were around the Technical Acumen and questions were asked around candidates adaptability to situations and the answers were probably gauged on the basis of the team fitment.
Overall, the interview process was very smooth and was laid out in 3 parts [read days]
1st Day : 3 technical rounds in person
2nd Day : 1 Technical Round in person, 1 telephonic on Program Management
3rd Day : Hiring Manager round : this was more like a discussion/conversation .
The HR / TA team structured the interviews very nicely and at no point I was feeling bored or was tired of waiting for next rounds. I quite liked the overall experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Cant Tell you the questions [NDA signed] but prepare for System Designs and Architecture and prepare to go deep into the design. For example If you are asked to Design Twitter and you say that you will create a followers table which will tell the LB to redirect the request to the required REDIS cluster, then be prepared to be asked about the logic/ DS of the Followers table etc.
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.