Tell me about yourself and background. Tell me about a time where you had to dig multiple levels to find the root cause. How did you convince the people to cooperate with you. Tell me about a time when the whole group was against you and what did you do. Did you get into heated debate at any point, how did you handle that. Tell me about a situation where you took a big risk and did something outside of your scope. What was the reaction of audience when you disclosed the bad news. Tell me of a time when you took a decision on your own without having to inform your authorities. Tell me about a time where you had to quickly glance through project and make a decision. Case: Amazon Prime with $35 minimum spend has one deal for $8 to deliver within 1 hour and second deal for free to deliver within 2 hours. How do you analyze the strategy and make any changes if required.
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Q: Are you willing to relocate?
This was followed by couple of emails to a local senior recruiter. Good round of interaction and clarification on job role, responsibilities, overall culture and salary expectations. Then misery started. I was forwarded to some recruiter in Seattle who contacted me after 3 days for scheduling phone interview. That interview got suddenly postponed and clashed with my vacation days, planned 1 year ahead. I requested for taking the interview after vacation (6 days): when I come back from vacation and email them for next steps, they tell me the position has been filled.
What was challenging product you worked on Why amazon video Why PM
Will you be able to do 5 days in the office
Describe a time that you initiated a process on your own to help the company grow and what were the results?
Tell me about a time when a you had to make a big decision quickly (bias for action question). Follow up question was tell me about a time when you had to make a big decision with time for a lot of analysis.
"Name a time and decision in your career where you had no analytical data or ability for observation where you made a development decision that was in opposition with upper management and you were right."
They asked a theoretical about what I would do if 500 servers were failing. That is not an experience that I have had.
Employees may feel a lot of freedom to come into my office and tell me that I'm completely off base on something. How would you deal with that if it were you?
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