Candidates applying for Senior Financial Analyst roles take an average of 20 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Amazon overall takes an average of 27 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Senior Financial Analyst according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Skills test: 50%
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Two separate phone interviews, following by an HR "Prep" call, and then final round consisting of 5 person virtual interview for 45 minutes each.
For the initial phone interviews, these are standard interviews 30-45 minute interviews with the "Tell me About Yourself" and "Why Amazon", followed by behavioral questions. The HR "Prep" call is general HR questions and will give you some advice on how to prepare for the final round interview (most of which you can already find online & so it didn't really help me that much since I already did a bunch of research).
For the 5 person virtual interview, each person are testing you on 2 separate leadership principles and will ask behavioral questions based on that principle. Most of the people that I interviewed with did not even do an intro....they just went straight to listing out behavioral questions that they had on their sheet. Some even kept asking me questions with less than 5 minutes remaining, so I didn't even get a chance to ask them any questions about the role. They will always ask to provide deeper details on the stories you ask them with follow up questions like "What would you have done differently?"...therefore make sure you can speak well on the details of the story that you provide. I felt as I was prepared well and did alot of research as there's lots of information online, however there was still sometimes where I went blank (mainly because I was worried about repeating the same stories).
Overall, I felt like it was a very one-sided interview, they don't give you enough time to know you as they just read off a list of questions on a piece of paper. There are even small businesses that help you prep specifically for the Amazon interview, which goes to show you how difficult and robotic of a process this is. I'm not sure how they expect you spend this much time on an interview if you already have a full-time job. On the plus side, if you prepare and do moderately well on this interview process, this gives you good practice for any other interview with other companies that you come across.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Several behavioral questions with detailed follow-ups (What would you have done differently? What did you learn from this experience?)
I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Amazon (New York, NY) in Apr 2020
Interview
Had a 45 minute phone interview with a hiring manager. The hiring manager gave me a bit of his background, gave a brief overview of the role, asked me, "why Amazon?", and then asked me to take him through my work experience. He had no questions while I discussed my experience. All of this left us with one minute to spare where I was able to ask one question. He said he had a hard stop at the end and told me I could reach out to the recruiter if I had anymore questions just as their interview website suggests.
Found out late the next day that they're going with another candidate. The hiring manager seemed nice though and wasn't trying to throw me off at all which I appreciate. The 2 recruiters I worked with along the way were helpful as well.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Amazon (Dublin, Dublin) in Jan 2020
Interview
3 person interview with one person talking who was a senior citizen on contract to assemble a finance team. He was not familiar with the project and provided context to the interview, background etc.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me what the CAPM is? - (he read this from a list but didn’t know what the letters stood for)