How to Pass Amazon Online Assessment Test 2021
Do you have a question about how to pass the amazon online assessment test? I am an engineer working for Amazon who is involved in their interviewing process, so I will go anonymous, just in case :) I think these considerations are something that most top-shelf tech companies will use and weigh in their process, but who knows. These shouldn’t be considered ‘trade secrets. I expect that should I start my own company someday, I will likely borrow some of these concepts, as I personally like them.
Due to the broad scope of its operations, it is nearly always looking for fresh employees to join its ranks in order to accommodate the rising demands of its customers and services.
How to Pass Amazon Online Assessment Exam 2021
This means that no matter if you are a graphic designer, warehouse worker, or IT specialist, you can expect them to give you a good career opportunity that can stretch for years to come so long as you manage to pass the Amazon online assessment test.
Commonly known as the Amazon assessment, this pre-employment exam is used early on in the hiring process no matter what position you are aiming for as a measure by the company to filter out unworthy candidates so that they can focus on those who show potential or are truly prime applicants.
This means that it is imperative that you will have to do your best to overcome the Amazon online assessment because if you fail to do so, then your chances of being hired are pretty much shut down completely.
How to Pass Amazon Online Assessment Test: Getting a job at Amazon is more than just that. Depending on how well you do with them, either as an entry-level worker or someone in upper management such as one of their many facility supervisors or even office managers.
1. Look up some practice tests to prepare for the cognitive assessments
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Depending on the position that you are applying for, you will either be made to take 2 or 3 tests, and these are:
Verbal Reasoning –
Where your grasp of the English language is tested in order for the company to know that you are capable of understanding reports, announcements, and any other legal documents or instructions that every employee will have to read.
This means you can expect questions revolving around reading comprehension, spelling, grammar, and even word order questions.
Numerical Reasoning –
Where your ability to perform basic to complex mathematical operations is tested. This means that you will encounter questions revolving around the four basic operations, word problems, some algebraic expressions, and even some statistical data interpretation.
Logical Reasoning –
Where your ability to think out of the box and solve problems is tested. Questions here will range from spatial reasoning questions to deductive and logic reasoning items.
This is where Amazon assessment practice tests come in handy because these exams will contain questions that are near-identical, or completely identical, to the ones that you can encounter in the actual thing.
1. Make a good first impression
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Once your application has been processed and the hiring manager in charge finds that your credentials meet the minimum requirements for the position that you are aiming for, you will have to undergo an initial interview of sorts via phone.
Although you may think that you can rest easy since this is just the first step in the Amazon assessment, you must know that by the time you accept the call, you are already being graded for the job.
While the questions may vary, the interviewer will assess just how compatible you are with the Amazon Leadership Principles.
As a result, it would be a good idea to read up on these principles, see how they relate to the job that you want, and try to angle your answers or responses in line with them.
Some questions, however, will focus heavily on what sort of approach you are likely to take when dealing with problems in the workplace.
That is to say, you will have to prove that you are someone that is compatible, or at least can learn to adapt to, the company culture of Amazon itself.
3. Research your job position and sharpen your ‘people skills’
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Once you pass the initial phone interview, you will then proceed to the actual Amazon assessment test.
Here, you will be made to complete a series of tests in order to see if you have the minimum cognitive abilities to function and succeed as an Amazon employee.
Once you pass the Amazon test, you will then be invited to take a workstyle assessment, work simulation, before finally being allowed to have a face-to-face interview.
In this part of the hiring process, the company will focus on how well you are suited for the job that you are applying for through the use of a personality test and situational judgment test of sorts.
For the personality test, you will be expected to choose the responses that are linked to the job that you want. If you’re applying for a customer service position, then you must tailor your answers to highlight your interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
If you’re applying for a position in upper management like a supervisor or a manager, then you should focus on statements that are likely to be linked to decision-making and leadership skills.
The same mechanic will apply to the Amazon work simulation, but instead of a personality test, you will instead be given a number of scenarios that someone in the job that you are interested in encounters on a regular, if not daily, basis, and you will be tasked with choosing what is the best course of action to take in order to solve it.
These scenarios can range from petty misunderstandings, work schedule conflicts, irate customers, unexpected delays, and even integrity and accountability-based situations.
What is Amazon looking for when they interview?
How to Pass Amazon Online Assessment Test: We’re interested in your culture fit, problem-solving skills, and whether you are an ‘exceptional candidate. If you get hired and get more involved with Amazon, you’ll learn the specific terminology for these concepts within Amazon; I’m purposefully not using them, as I think these concepts are not unique to Amazon, they just have a specific ‘branding’.
For culture fit, it’s about showing you are personally interested in making things better for our customers, and how you will fit in with the team. For this, it’s about accurately giving highlights of your industry experience. It’s worth reviewing your history and understanding cases where you benefited your team through your decision-making and communication, and/or cases where you had to understand a difficult problem and steps you took to solve it. There are a couple different facets here, so it’s important to come prepared. If you don’t have enough industry experience to draw on (though you should also try to draw on your college/school experience first), you should speak honestly and let the interviewer determine how to proceed. Not having anything here does not fail you, it just means we will focus more on the other things you bring to the table.
For problem-solving, it’s about showing you are able to “do the job”, and coding may or may not be involved (each interview slot is different). This is the most complex of the three facets; it requires that the interviewer convey their problem to you well, that you understand it well, and that you are able to convey your answer to them well, in either code and/or explanation. For this I would say try to act as if you’re already hired: what questions would/should you ask them to understand this problem better before diving in? What do they actually care about? It’s important to try to see where the interviewer is coming from and how to give them what they’re looking for; each interviewer (because we are all human) is different. It’s also important to know that some interviewers will insist on looking for a specific set of details that you may not be able to give them. If you can recognize this, it’s important to be honest and tell the interviewer you don’t know or understand what they are asking for, and they will ideally change the problem to give you a better opportunity to solve it. These situations are never ideal; the more you know about data structures and algorithms and the more familiar you are with recognizing when a problem is asking you to use one vs. another, the less often this should occur.
Being an ‘exceptional’ candidate, it’s about showing that for the position you’re being hired into, you can be better than the peers you will work with and that you will grow and take on more responsibilities given time. This is where interview success can be most volatile; I don’t think any company, Amazon included, has figured out a fair or reasonable way to gauge this consistently. All I can say is, the reason you will get interviewed by multiple people is so that we can try to build an objective picture of how you will work in Amazon. It’s important that you are personally interested in helping our customers, and it’s important that you are interested in becoming a better programmer/engineer/etc.
In conclusion, we specifically want to hire you if you are personally interested in and able to serve our customers, and that plays out in a number of ways, covered above. If you’re not interested in becoming a better programmer/engineer/etc., then you’re not going to help us serve our customers. Whiteboard coding is probably the most questionable part of the whole experience, but it’s there to help you prove yourself. You’re given only an hour to impress the person interviewing you; how will you impress them? Saying you love Amazon’s customers is one thing (“talking the talk”), but showing that you carefully consider Amazon’s problems, their requirements, and are able to work on solutions for them, that helps back it up (“walking the walk”). If you’re able to do these things consistently, you will interview well.
Feel free to ask for further details, if needed.
How is the assessment “graded”? Do you only move on if you pass both questions optimally with every test case passed? Is the code/solution reviewed by a human to determine where the mistake(s) were?
As far as I know, the online assessment can differ between organizations at Amazon in terms of how you are graded. Of the organizations I work with, the code/solution is typically reviewed by (human :) engineers to determine mistakes and make the final judgment call on whether to accept it. It is, to my knowledge, possible to pass with an imperfect solution, as long as the overall approach appears to be correct and hits most of the edge cases. Being proactive about calling out the tradeoffs in your approach and running tests on it is good. It’s also good too, as noted earlier, not overengineer the solution (e.g. trying to re-implement quicksort almost never goes well). Passing all of the test cases for all questions is definitely preferable (it makes it a lot easier for us to review and grade the solution).
We do try to do ‘human’ reviews for sanity, as some solutions in the past have managed to expose bugs in the assessment grader and/or inconsistencies in the presentation of the problem. We’ve done what we can to iterate and improve upon assessment problems, and that also includes sampling it against engineers who work at Amazon.
What is Amazon looking for in the online assessment?
That you have decent problem-solving skills and can code sufficiently, within a time limit. That when you’re brought in for an interview, you will hold your own and know how to code.
Here it benefits you to know as many data structures and algorithms as you can and be familiar with using them, in at least one popular language. Java or C++ is probably most ideal. It depends on what position you’re interviewing for and what organization with Amazon, but typically you are tested on data structures that you may use day-to-day, such as graphs, trees, lists, stacks, queues, sets, and maps/dictionaries. Algorithms are typically use-case driven—that is you usually aren’t asked up front to write a sort algorithm or a tree or graph traversal algorithm. Based on the requirements you may need to make use of one, and in such cases, you are allowed to use base library implementations.
A good rule of thumb (which also applies to interviews) is to try to answer the problem as you would if you were already hired. For example, would you really re-implement mergesort or quicksort vs. use a well-tested implementation for sorting that already exists? Save the time, don’t do it, unless you’re clearly, specifically being asked to do so. You should have a very good reason to reinvent a wheel.
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