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"Overall, the interview process was well structured and gave me the opportunity to discuss a broad range of experiences across product strategy, customer problems, technical decision-making, and cross-functional leadership. I especially appreciated the follow-up questions, which made the conversations feel thoughtful and allowed me to go deeper into my reasoning and trade-offs. The interviewers were engaging and created a comfortable environment for discussion. The main area that could have been better was having slightly more visibility into the focus of each interview beforehand, which would have helped me better understand how the different conversations fit together. Overall, though, I had a positive experience and enjoyed learning more about the team and role through the process"

"I interviewed for a Senior Product Manager role where both L5 and L6 openings were in play. The process was pretty simple structurally: one 30-minute screening call, then a final loop of five separate one-hour interviews that I could schedule on different days. From what I saw, the whole thing was heavily behavioral and really centered on Amazon's leadership principles, even when the interviewers didn't say the principle out loud. The questions were pretty open-ended, so a big part of the challenge was recognizing what they were actually testing and tailoring my story to that. What stood out to me was how standardized the process felt around principles rather than product cases or execution exercises."