1. Application & Screening • You apply online or through referral. • Recruiter screens your CV for catalog/domain experience (data management, content operations, SQL/Excel skills, stakeholder handling, etc.). ⸻ 2. Online Assessment (if applicable) For many catalog roles (including senior-level), Amazon may give an online test: • English grammar & comprehension – checking language and editing skills. • Analytical/Logical reasoning – short puzzles, pattern recognition, or numerical reasoning. • Excel/SQL basics – ability to handle catalog data, run queries, or use pivot tables. ⸻ 3. Phone Screening / First Round Usually with a hiring manager or senior associate. Focus: • Understanding of catalog operations, content quality, defect identification. • Experience in handling high-volume data with accuracy and speed. • Amazon’s Leadership Principles (LPs) (like Ownership, Deliver Results, Dive Deep). Expect behavioral questions framed around these. Example: “Tell me about a time you found a process gap and fixed it.” ⸻ 4. In-person / Virtual Interviews Typically 2–3 rounds, including: 1. Operations/Domain Round • Catalog workflows, metadata enrichment, taxonomy, handling escalations. • Use cases: “How would you identify and fix a duplicate product issue in the catalog?” • Quality vs. productivity balance. 2. Technical Round (Excel/SQL) • Excel: VLOOKUP, Pivot tables, conditional formatting, data cleaning. • SQL: Select, Joins, GROUP BY, filtering. Usually basic to intermediate queries. • Sometimes case-based: given a dataset, find anomalies or summarize. 3. Behavioral Round • Purely LP-driven. STAR format (Situation, Task, Action, Result). • Scenarios on teamwork, handling pressure, improving processes.

If you learn and practice about STAR interview technics and Amazon Leadership Principals you can easily pass the interview. All the process is so systematic and based on a logic. There is almost no space for a personal comments of a hiring manager, they need to follow up the interview rules.