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Amazon interview questions

170 questions researched across 8 Amazon seats in Product Management, Operations, Business Intelligence & Analytics. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Product ManagerProduct Management · experienced · 40 min
  • Pathways Operations ManagerOperations · graduate · 30 min
  • Business Analyst InternBusiness Intelligence & Analytics · intern · 20 min
  • Financial AnalystFinance · graduate · 30 min
  • SDE InternSoftware Development · intern · 45 min
  • PM InternProduct Management · intern · 20 min
  • Marketing InternMarketing · intern · 20 min
  • Operations InternOperations · intern · 20 min

12 Amazon interview questions

  1. Suppose you're the new PM in charge of Amazon's publisher experience. What key success metrics would you track?

  2. Pick one improvement you would make to that publisher experience. How would you measure whether it worked?

  3. How would you design a version of the Kindle app specifically for users with severe motor impairments?

  4. How much available warehouse space exists inside a projected hurricane path?

  5. What data sources would you pull for that, and how would you keep them current as the storm track changes?

  6. Walk me through the architecture behind a product you shipped.

  7. Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a colleague over a product decision.

  8. Tell me about a time you improved a process — something that shows Invent and Simplify.

  9. Tell me about a time you found a product gap that applied beyond one customer.

  10. Tell me about a time you moved quickly because speed mattered most.

  11. Tell me about a time you treated an internal team as your customer.

  12. Tell me about a time you earned trust and influenced people who did not report to you.

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 4 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Behavioral6 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Product3 of 12 above
Clarify user and goal; identify needs; prioritize with explicit criteria; propose and test a solution; define success metrics, trade-offs, and risks.
Technical2 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.
Case1 of 12 above
Clarify the objective; build a mutually exclusive structure; prioritize the highest-value branch; analyze with evidence; synthesize a recommendation, risks, and next step.

158 more Amazon questions

The rest of the bank — 170 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

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How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A Amazon round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

Falas is not affiliated with or endorsed by any employer named. Simulations are independent practice based on publicly described recruiting formats.