Amazon Program Manager (Non technical) interview questions
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The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2008
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The process consisted of 3 phone interviews and an all day onsite interview with multiple employees. The onsite interviews were pretty standard with the exception of interviews with developers. There is an expectation that PM's are highly technical which is fair, but the developers were not particularly good interviewers with questions which tended to be rather obtuse. Even when setting up a complicated scenario, I have an expectation for clarity. Unfortunately, this makes it challenging for an interviewee to respond effectively.
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Suppose you want to migrate to a new platform but new platform has different functionality from old one. How do you migrate seamlessly?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Hyderâbâd) in Aug 2010
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forwarded resume through friend - employee referral
Recruiter contacted for more details
After a week, Recruter arranged for informational with hiring manager
After a week, phone interview with dev manager
After another week, phone interview with test manager
Now waiting for results and next in person interview.
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what is the most challenging problem that i had faced and how did i solve it?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon in Mar 2010
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TPM = technical project lead. The program manager part of the title is not what a PMI certified program manager would ever expect.
The whole process is very quick, once you get started. Internal admission is that it can take months to get the first phone call, but after that the process moves very quickly.
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Describe how to implement a scalable web service architecture, like amazon.com.
You have just been given a large program with many different input components. One of the component deliveries was completed with errors and the at group says they cannot fix the problem because they are on to other work.
How do you resolve this issue?