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Amazon PM Interview Questions

136 questions reported from Amazon product manager interviews, each with an expert answer. Free questions are open to everyone; Premium unlocks the rest.

Questions
136
Easy
9
Medium
108
Hard
19

136 questions match

795
If you had to pick just 3 Leadership Principles to teach to new Amazon PMs, which would you pick, and why?
Medium
Behavioral
796
Why do you want to be a PM or PMT? How is this the best way to meet your goals?
Medium
Behavioral
797
Tell me about a time when you applied Amazon’s Leadership Principles to your own daily life.
Medium
Behavioral
798
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about a time when you put the customer first, even at the expense of short-term revenue or other corporate goals.
Medium
Behavioral
799
If you had to add a new Leadership Principle, what would it be? If you had to remove one, which would you pick?
Medium
Behavioral
800
Asked Feb 2026What makes you “peculiar?”
Medium
Behavioral
801
Asked Feb 2026Have you ever developed your own rules of thumb for being a more effective leader? What were they? Should Amazon adopt them?
Medium
Behavioral
802
What are Amazon’s 2 newest Leadership Principles? What would you do to help further those goals?
Medium
Behavioral
803
Asked Feb 2026Which leadership principle do you embody the most? The least?
Medium
Behavioral
806
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about a time when you earned the trust of customers.
Medium
Behavioral
807
Tell me about a time when you had to deliver a project under a tight timeline. What sacrifices did you have to make? How did it impact the final deliverable? [Deliver Results]
Medium
Behavioral
808
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about a piece of critical or negative feedback you received. What was it? What did you do about it? [Earn Trust]
Medium
Behavioral
809
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about a time when you asked for customer feedback. What did the customer say? How did you use this to drive innovation or improvement ? What was the customer or market response? [Customer Obsession]
Medium
Behavioral
810
Tell me about a time when you did an indepth analysis to understand and solve a problem. How did you know you were focusing on the right factors? What was the outcome? [Dive Deep]
Medium
Behavioral
812
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about a time when you made a bad decision. What was the impact of this decision? What did you learn?
Medium
Behavioral
813
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about yourself. Why Amazon?
Medium
Behavioral
815
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about a time when you disagreed but committed.
Medium
Behavioral
816
Asked Feb 2026Tell me about a time when you disagreed with a customer.
Medium
Behavioral
818
Tell me how you’d build an AWS service that can detect fraudulent credit card transactions.
Medium
Technical
823
Asked Feb 2026Do a system design for a chatbot. Explain how a web session is maintained between an end-user and the web server that's handling the conversation.
Medium
Technical
824
Asked Feb 2026How do RESTful APIs work? Give me an example.
Medium
Technical
827
Asked Feb 2026What's the hardest technical problem you've ever dealt with?
Medium
Technical
1409
Asked Apr 2026Tell me about a time when you stepped up to own an important project that nobody else wanted to do, or that had fallen through the cracks. Why did you think it was important? How did you take ownership of it?
Medium
Behavioral
1410
Asked Apr 2026Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem with a simple solution.
Hard
Behavioral
1411
Tell me about a time when you had to dig deep into product metrics to come up with an innovative idea. What exact metrics triggered your ideas? What constraints and challenges did you face in developing the idea?
Medium
Behavioral
1414
Asked Apr 2026Tell me about a time when you were working on a product whose scope of opportunity became much bigger than initially envisioned. How did you scale it up? What was the end result of the project? [Innovate]
Easy
Behavioral
1415
Asked Apr 2026Think back to one of your past PM experiences. How did you define the product's vision? How did you define the features and build a roadmap for not just the short term but also for 5 years out? How did you strategize and prioritize your roadmap?
Hard
Behavioral
1416
Tell me about a time when you met a goal and then exceeded expectations.
Easy
Behavioral
1418
Tell me about a time when your team couldn't meet a deadline. How did you handle it? What did you say to stakeholders? What did you learn for the future?
Medium
Behavioral
1419
How have you earned the trust of your team and cross-functional stakeholders when there was a radical strategy shift on the team? Use a recent example from your current company. What did you do? What was the outcome?
Hard
Behavioral
1420
Asked Apr 2026What's an important lesson that you think Amazon leadership needs to learn?
Medium
Behavioral
1421
Asked Apr 2026What are you optimizing for in your career? Why does this make you want to join Amazon?
Hard
Behavioral
1422
Asked Apr 2026Tell me about a company that you think is even more customer-centric than Amazon. What do they do better than us?
Medium
Behavioral
1423
Asked Apr 2026Tell me about a time when you used data to make a decision.
Hard
Behavioral
1425
Tell me about a time when you made something simpler for customers. What prompted you to make the change? What was the outcome?
Hard
Behavioral
1426
Asked Apr 2026Tell me about a problem you had to solve that required in-depth thought and analysis.
Hard
Behavioral