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“What surprised me is how open ended the questions are, but each interviewer is very likely probing a specific Amazon leadership principle, so generic answers actually hurt you because you need to tease out what they’re really testing.”
“It was very Amazon style with leadership principles, but layered on top of that they kept asking how I’ve used AI to bring about innovation and change, and then they really challenged the metrics behind my stories.”
“Trust me, Amazon’s interview process has a different bar altogether, and for internal roles I’d stick with the AIQB because the interviewers are trained on that. You can even steer the interview by putting a hook in your answer so everything stays under your control.”
“There were a lot of probing questions that followed after each question. One good thing was that the hiring manager was pasting each question she asked on the chat, so that I could follow through.”
“It was a PMT role. Nothing really exciting just went thru resume and some BQs. And maybe was not a good fit as they are looking for b2b pm experience or with Saas ”
“The role is a TPM under Alexa, but seems really like a project manager role- review privacy features. HM round was very basic, one PM loop asked a product design question, however the interviewer always cutting off the answer after 2-3 sentences; the most strange part was the tech lead round- a pure system design question which didn't mentioned in prep call at all. Wend very deep around 45 mins.”
“Process is very inline with what is explained here and on youtube, prepare stories that fit the questions”
“The recruiter was quite helpful and shared details on the structure of the loops and how to prepare for it. The rounds in the loops were almost entirely behavioural focused on "Tell me about a time when" type of questions. There was probing for details as you walk through examples. Time was kept strictly in the discussions and you had to ensure you're able to control the cadence of the conversation.”
“The process was pretty standard, focused on Amazon leadership principles. Look up Exponent videos on how to answer behavioral questions.”
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“The weirdest Anthropic round was the company values interview. It was almost like a therapy session, and honestly if you went to a therapist at some point, you will pass that round much more easily.”
“What was very unusual is they didn’t give me any tooling to draw the system design, so I just sketched it on a piece of paper and talked them through it, then we got into this oddly deep debate about whether hover-over history should count as a recommendation signal.”
