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 a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Charlotte, NC) in Feb 2021
Interview
Huge missteps and I’m surprised Amazon hires this caliber:
1) late to call, I had to reach out to her 8 minutes past to see if she still planned on joining
2) she forgot she was the one who had initially sent the InMail to me...
3) said she submitted me to a role and no follow up after 2 weeks.
Recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn for a job requiring eventual relo to one of Amazon HQ. I replied to her questions around the skillsets I place, offers accepted per month, Boolean search string sample, and she provided me her calendar to set up a call.
She was about 10 minutes late to the call. She led off with pretty standard first few questions of why I applied... had to let her know she was the one who had initially reached out to me, which surprised her?
Eventually after asking some more basic questions about my background, she said I’d be a good fit for Amazon and she wanted to know if a heavy sourcing function or more candidate lead func5ion was of interest.
I told her I wanted to know more about the latter to find out if I was a good fit... instead of giving me information on the role, she asked a behavioral question that she would normally ask a candidate interviewing for that role.
I answered, she said she would submit me for a sourcing role HQ in Arlington. Haven’t heard back since.
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.