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 through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2019
Interview
I interviewed with the Hardlines business, Furniture team. My first round interview was an audio call with a Sr. Supply Chain Manager (stakeholder). I wasn't moved on to the next round interview after this. Amazon's interview style was to probe deep into your answer and ask follow up questions such as: Why did you or didn't you do XYZ? How did you evaluate the result? How did you know you were supposed to take this action? How did you identify this was a problem? Like most people have mentioned: be familiar with your stories, be clear about your logics, and delver well-structured stories.
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Give an example when I failed/made mistakes. Why Amazon? Why Vendor Manager?
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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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?