Technical Recruiter 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 52% positive. To compare, the company-average is 57.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Technical Recruiter roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 81 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 Technical Recruiter according to 81 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 17%
Group panel interview: 14%
Skills test: 10%
Presentation: 7%
Background check: 7%
Drug test: 4%
Personality test: 3%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Sep 2018
Interview
Several rounds, 1. phone screen 2. manager round.
The HR coordinator was really nice, but the manager was strange. When I asked really easy technical questiosn about the role she started to laugh strangely and said she cannot answer that because she is not allowed to tell me the answers.
The new manager would not come from an IT or IT recruitment backround so she would not see properly how to manage an IT recruitment team (at elast at the beggining).
She went through the questions quite fast, but it seemed like she asks me all the questions from a paper and she did not really care about my personality.
At the end I was not selected which is totally okay, but when I asked (twice) what was the rejection reason they said sorry we are not able to tell you only that you are not the best fit with the company's values.
As a technical recruiter I had many interviews, I helped and also taught by many leaders about recruitment processes but it was far worse than what I expected from Amazon. (also compared to other companies in Dublin)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me a difficult situation what you needed to handle with oen of your stakeholders?
4 rounds of interviews that can be split into two days or one consisting of Amazon LP’s and behavioral questions. Star format is huge and don’t repeat example or answers
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a tell you created a niche sourcing strategy to fill a role
Straight to the point. Interviewer has been with Amazon for quite sometime. It baffles me how some Recruiters get jobs at these companies. As a recruiter I could tell right off the bat the interview would end poorly based off the Recruiters tone when he joined.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you sourced 100 candidates and only 2 responded but they were middle of the pack what would you do
Standard process, 5 rounds in total for onsite. Can ask to spread it into 2 days. Make sure you prepare solid bq stories and you will be fine. Make sure you prep some questions to ask as well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Standard bq questions and some basic technical questions.