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 through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2013
Interview
The first phone screen was fairly light, I was asked about my organizational and prioritization process. The second phone interview was primarily focused on "Why Amazon...?" and how I run my desk. The next step was an in person. Typically, you have what they call a Bar Raiser however my bar raiser had to cancel so I interviewed with the HM (who did my initial screen), a Lead Recruiter, the team's Event Recruiter and the Recruiter who managed niche roles. Questions regarding specific data/metrics, behavior based questions regarding projects aimed around Amazon's Leadership Principles. I also was asked to role play and SLA and then respond with a boolean search.
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Question 1
One of the Recruiters, went through a role play of a SLA and after that part was done I was asked to write the most complex boolean search string I could come up with based on the SLA. I threw together a site search with wildcards and a tilde to indicate grammatical variations.
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
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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.
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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.
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Standard bq questions and some basic technical questions.