<p>I got a call a few days ago for a phone interview with Amazon for an operations internship as an IE..The lady said that there are usually 2 phone interviews and 1 onsite interview ( although on website, it says that they only do 1 phone interview for internships ).. Anyone gone for an Amazon internship interview and if so, could you please shed light on how it went? I read online that the technical interviews include a lot of programming questions but not sure if thats for full-time positions only. Any help would be much appreciated.</p>
<p>I don’t know anything specific to Amazon, however, I doubt that there would be a programming part for an operations position. In general, all of the ops interviews I’ve had stuck with the standard behaviorial questions:</p>
<p>Give me an exmple of a time…</p>
<p>I have noticed more companies doing on site interviews this year for internships. No less than three companies have asked me to travel for 1-2 day second round interviews(one position was in ops, one in IE, and one in sales).</p>
<p>I have always found it amazing when companies do on-site interviews and multi-stage interviews for internships. I never had that happen. The only multi-stage or on-site interviews that I ever had were for full-time positions. On-site interviews are great though. Free trip to [insert city here] with most expenses paid.</p>
<p>Since the first interview is supposed to behavioral based, didnt you second interview for ops/ie ask for any technical questions at all? If so, thank god! :p</p>
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<p>Yeah same here… On-site interview woud be great if its going to a city… These plants are in the PA or DE heartlands so not the most exciting places :p</p>
<p>I’ve had on-site interviews for all three internships I’ve gotten, and for one I didn’t get. I think it just varies from company to company, and the ones that are hiring a lot of interns from a huge pool are less likely than smaller companies that just have a few candidates (which was my situation.)</p>
<p>To be honest with you I declined them so I couldn’t tell you what happened. If you’re really concerned you could probably just ask them and I’m sure they would’t mind.</p>
<p>In my experience, students from good engineering schools (specifically target schools for a company) are very rarely asked technical questions. The assumption is that if you graduated from the school, and have a good GPA, that you’re technically competent. Also, it’s usually easy to “sniff out” incompetent students (except freshman - that’s a challenge). </p>
<p>Every company for which I’ve worked has also given multiple round / site-interviews for co-ops and fulltime students. Generally, the first round is done by an engineer or a HR rep in order to weed out the unqualified candidates and to match candidates to positions. The second round interviews were conducted by hiring managers. Those interviews could have been phone interviews, but we would fly students to our facilities in order to “wine and dine” them. Even if we ended up not hiring the person, it’s a benefit for that student to tell his or her friends how great our company is.</p>
<p>“In my experience, students from good engineering schools (specifically target schools for a company) are very rarely asked technical questions. The assumption is that if you graduated from the school, and have a good GPA, that you’re technically competent.”</p>
<p>Not the way Jeff Bezos runs his operations. Everyone is put into the grinder just the same. I work for Jeff and had to go through this process a few months ago.</p>
<p>Everything else GPBurdell says is pretty much spot on.</p>
<p>Yeah, you definitely didn’t interview the places I interviewed… There were some places that threw total softball interviews, but Aerospace Corporation, for example, made me derive finite element theory from start to finish. They handed me a dry erase marker and said, “Start with deriving the triangular shape function.” </p>
<p>Me: “I… Seriously? I’ve been in industry for a year…!” The guy smiled and nodded sympathetically. I ended up limping through it and I got a second interview with their dynamics folks, but by then I’d decided that I didn’t really want to live in Los Angeles anymore.</p>
<p>If it’s clear that you have, at one time in the past, <em>learned</em> your stuff, even if you can’t currently <em>recite</em> your stuff from rote memory, they’ll cut you a lot of slack. Don’t worry about technical interviews too much, because they feel like they go worse than they actually do. I’ve only been through about five actual technical interviews where they ran me through the wringer, out of probably fifteen or twenty total interviews.</p>
<p>Wow, I was never grilled in a job interview, so I guess I was lucky. I do well on paper, but not in oral exams! Yikes.</p>
<p>DH went through a lot of grilling at Walter P. Moore and Sargent & Lundy. He passed the tests, but didn’t end up at either company. The firm he (and I) ended up at was the one where the interviewer wanted to talk about sailing the entire time.</p>
<p>Blue is freaking fantastic. The environment is spectacular and the tasks at hand are ambitious. Typically, new hires go through a year-long rotation program: structural/mechanical, propulsion, systems, avionics (sometimes) - so we end up learning quite a lot! We’re handed problems to solve and/or things to design or analyze and work with a technical and professional mentor to make sure we’re on the right track. After a year, we are assigned to our final places…</p>
<p>I guess that is just about as much as I can post on here. Everything else you’ll have to get from the press release.</p>
<p>I don’t want to swamp our hiring guy but if you are damn serious about private manned space-flight research and development, PM me and I’ll send you a link to our website.</p>