the "A" in "A to Z" stands for ANXIETY

April 18, 2013 6:19 AM

I'm going to have a phone interview with an amazon corporate recruiter in a few hours. What can I expect?
posted by tylerfulltilt to Work & Money (5 answers total)

Have you been to Glassdoor.com?

That's a wonderful site they have info on people's job satisfaction, interviews, salaries, etc.

I joined and contributed. I have full access. Can't recommend it enough.
posted by Ruthless Bunny at 6:35 AM on April 18, 2013

What kind of job? I went through the sales interview process with them a couple of years ago. 10 interviews - no offer. The first phone interview was very sales focused, the 2nd very technical. The third was a mixture of both with an actual sales rep, then they flew me to Seattle for a full day of interviews.
posted by COD at 6:56 AM on April 18, 2013

Yeah, no-one can really answer this without knowing which bit of Amazon you're applying to.
posted by pharm at 7:40 AM on April 18, 2013

Response by poster: It's a position as a video editor at one of the product studios. I had the phone interview. It wen very well. It was mostly questions about times that I had gone above and beyond in my current position.
posted by tylerfulltilt at 8:57 AM on April 18, 2013

Best answer: Study the Amazon Values.

While they won't ask outright, they're big on finding examples/stories where you have demonstrated many of them. That is, make it easy for the interviewer see the "ownership" you showed when you took a flailing project and got it back on track because you felt that it was a project that you really cared about succeeding. Or make it easy to show that fought somebody's "instincts" based on what your customer actually wanted/needed.

Also, I wouldn't worry about "frugality", "hire and develop the best" for the interview.
posted by maulik at 10:54 AM on April 18, 2013