Amazon Assessment Test 2024: What to Expect and How to Pass Your Online Assessment

The Amazon assessment test is a series of online tests that Amazon uses to screen its candidates, ranging from personality tests to technical assessments. The most common assessments are the Work Simulation and Work Style Assessment, but there are over 10 other assessments for specific roles, such as SDE, AWS, Maintenance, and more.

Below is an overview of the most popular Amazon assessment tests:

The Amazon Work Simulation is one of the most common Amazon assessment tests and it's used to screen candidates for numerous positions.  The simulation takes around 50 minutes to complete, and you will be evaluated based on your ability to provide solutions to complex work-related challenges commonly faced by Amazon employees.

Each scenario begins with an email communication that provides context for the issue you’ll face. When the simulation starts, you’ll be prompted with emails and instant messages from your virtual Team Lead, team members, etc.

Within each scenario, you’ll get more details to help you solve the problem in the form of charts, graphs, spreadsheets, and tables. You’ll then be asked questions and given a set of responses from which you can choose.

• A less common test version is called "Amazon Hiring Simulation". It resembles the Work Simulation but focuses more on analyzing and interpreting numerical data reports, tables, and graphs. 

If you are applying for a position at Amazon, you must take the Work Style Assessment before or after other Amazon online assessments. It is a one-of-a-kind personality test that evaluates your work preferences, qualities, and expected behavior at the workplace to determine your suitability with Amazon’s work culture.

On this assessment, which takes about 15 minutes to complete, you’ll see pairs of statements, and you’ll need to decide which is most like you or more like you.

Amazon’s Work Style Assessment is completely based on the Amazon Leadership Principles. These are core values that are super important to Amazon, and its workers address and follow them daily.

So, before starting the Work Style Assessment, read the Leadership Principles and learn how to implement them in your past work experiences.

The Amazon Software Development Engineer online assessment combines coding and behavioral tests given to candidates for SDE positions - interns, new grads, and experienced roles.

For interns and new grad positions, the Amazon online assessment is divided as follows: two coding questions, Work Simulation, and Work Style Assessment.

For more experienced SDE roles, you’ll get a coding test that includes two coding questions, a coding approach questionnaire, a Work Style assessment (two parts), and a Work Simulation assessment.

Note that Amazon puts a premium and bases its behavioral and personality assessments on the 16 leadership principles. So, learn them and take them into account while choosing your responses.

The AWS Support Engineer assessment has almost the same structure as the AWS Solution Architect assessment.

It includes a job simulation, a multiple-choice assessment on general technical knowledge, a profile preference and proficiency questionnaire for the many AWS cloud support roles, and a work-style questionnaire.

The technical questions’ content is different from the SA assessment, as it requires different levels of technical knowledge.

The Amazon Solution Architect (SA) online assessment takes about 75-90 minutes and is divided into five different sections: Work Simulation, Work Style Assessment, General Technical Knowledge section, Proficiency Interest Survey, Technical Indicator Assessment. Here is an example of an AWS question you might face:

If you are a recent Master's graduate or have been discharged from the armed forces, Pathways is a program designed to get you on an accelerated path to senior management. The 5-year program is considered challenging, packed, and intense. However, its successful completion will guarantee a full-time management position at Amazon.

The test has 4-5 sections that evaluate your knowledge and skills in several different aspects: Working With the Team, Working With Metrics, Planning for the Team, Work Style Assessment, and Work Experiences. JobTestPrep is happy to accompany you through the initial selection process using preparation materials and guides.

Let's see an example of an Amazon Area Manager question.

The Amazon Maintenance Technician Test (also referred to as Amazon Tech 2 or Tech 3) is a Ramsay Corporation test assessing your theoretical and practical knowledge over a variety of topics. It contains 75 multiple-choice questions and lasts around 2.5 hours.

Test topics include:

• Print reading
• Electrical theory
• Control circuits
• Power tools
• Preventive maintenance
• And more...

The Amazon Control Systems Assessment is used for tech and lead positions in Amazon, and revolves around 8 topics, including schematics, process control, electrical theory, motors, and more.

The overall time to solve the test is around 90 minutes. Similar to other Amazon technical tests, this test is also conducted by Ramsay Corporation.

For more information and prep materials, visit the Amazon Control Systems Test page.

To get accepted into the Amazon Technical Academy, there are three Amazon ATA assessments you must pass (as well as other hiring stages). Here's a quick overview of these assessments:

• AMCAT Test: The Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT) is a 24-question logical reasoning test that takes 35 minutes to complete.
• Work Style Assessment: This assessment is a unique type of personality test that's widely used by Amazon. It evaluates certain personality traits and behaviors to see if they fit Amazon's famous 16 Leadership Principles.
• Technical Assessment: This 3-hour assessment measures your Java fundamentals knowledge. It includes multiple-choice questions that assess your theoretical coding knowledge as well as a coding question that evaluates your practical coding skills in Java.

In addition to these three assessments, you'll need to have a positive manager nomination form and to pass an interview process. There's also an optional coding project, which was mandatory in previous Cohorts.

Get more information about the Amazon ATA assessments and access an exclusive practice for all three of them.

The road to becoming an Amazon Financial Analyst includes a series of challenging assessments and interviews.

For most Financial Analyst positions at Amazon, the assessments will include:

• Work Simulation: a unique situational judgment test with scenarios that represent situations you might experience on the job at Amazon. Takes about 50 minutes to complete.
• Work Style Assessment: a 15-minute personality assessment that evaluates qualities important to your success within Amazon.
• Financial Analyst Excel Test: the Amazon Excel assessment test requires you to master the different features of the software. Most of the questions on this excel assessment will deal with formulas, macro creation, advanced formatting, advanced formula creation, and document properties.

 
Learn more about the Amazon Financial Analyst assessment test on our dedicated page.

Note: We have a new practice pack for the MBA assessment. 

The Amazon assessment test for MBA is the first online assessment given to MBA and master’s level graduates and interns applying to full-time roles and internships.

The online MBA assessment includes three sections, in which no specific Amazon or functional knowledge and skills are evaluated. Nevertheless, you must successfully pass it to advance to the interview stage.
These three sections are:

• Work simulation: a simulation that presents scenarios (mini business cases) you might encounter while working at Amazon.
• Work Style assessment: a personality test that evaluates your preferred work preferences, tendencies, and qualities.
• Agree or Disagree: a series of statements regarding your personality, traits, preferences and etc. You will be asked to rate each statement on a scale of five options - between Strongly Agree and Strongly Disagree.
• Work priorities: ranking questions where you rank your interest in different activities that Amazon workers may encounter in their everyday work
  environments.

Candidates for Amazon’s Warehouse and fulfillment associate positions take an online assessment named Amazon Associate Game On Virtual Job Tryout.

The assessment consists of two sections:

Tell Us Your Story: On this part, you’ll get 22 multiple-choice questions asking about your work experience, background, and approach. Here are a few examples of questions you’ll likely see on the assessment:

• How would your most recent employer rate your attendance compared to others?
• In your most recent job, how many times per year did you have an unexcused absence?
• How would your most recent supervisor at work rate your drive to become a top performer compared to others?

You’ll see additional statements in which you’ll need to choose an answer from “Strongly disagree” to “strongly agree.”

Stow Pro: This section includes three games that showcase the type of work you’ll do as a Warehouse associate.

All three games have rules similar to those used in existing facilities. In these games, you’ll need to place virtual items onto shelves, load packages into aisles, and place grocer items into shopping bags.

Access ourAmazon Warehouse and Fulfillment Assessment full PrepPack for sample questions and answering tips.

The Amazon numerical reasoning test is a multiple-choice interactive aptitude test designed by a huge test provider named SHL. It tests your mathematical abilities by the use of graphs and charts. You will be evaluated in relation to other test takers and will face a strict time limit.

The SHL test Amazon uses is comprised of 10 questions and takes 18 minutes to complete. There's also a less common version consisting of 18 questions that take 25 minutes, depending on the job you're applying for.

On these numerical reasoning tests, you'll be given partial numerical data that you'll need to calculate in order to find missing data. Then, based on the data you've found, you'll need to tweak blank graphs accordingly.

This SHL numerical assessment requires excellent math skills and a quick eye for details. On the real test, there's only about a minute and a half for each question. That includes reading it, conducting the calculations, and tweaking the graphs.

To get a taste of the real test, try the following free SHL numerical sample test or take a look at our general SHL Practice Test.

And if you’d like to read more about the Amazon Numerical test and access its complete practice pack, visit this page on our UK Site.

For most positions, the Amazon hiring process looks like the following:

1. Submitting an Amazon Job Application.
2. Resume Screening
3. Online Assessment
4. Phone Interview
5. Virtual Interview / On-site Interviews
6. Job Offer

The phone interview will be either behavioral or technical, depending on the job you’re applying to.

Behavioral interviews will focus on past situations or challenges you’ve faced and how you handled them, using the Leadership Principles to guide the discussion.

Technical interviews will usually include coding and system design problems that you’ll need to solve on a whiteboard. There are 10 technical topics that you might come up with during your interview, from data structures to artificial intelligence.

It’s recommended to contact your recruiter to find out which specific topics you’ll likely be asked about. Either way, Amazon won’t be evaluating your ability to memorize these topics, but rather your ability to apply what you know and solve problems efficiently.

You’ll usually hear back from Amazon within two business days after you finish the phone interview.

As of 2021, all of Amazon’s face-to-face interviews are conducted virtually, using Amazon Chime.

As with the phone interviews, each of the in-person interviews will be either behavioral or technical (depending on your desired job).

For technical interviews, you’ll need to use a whiteboard and prepare to address these technical topics. For some positions, such as SDE, you'll also discuss and explain some aspects of your online assessment.

For the behavioral interviews, you’ll need to focus on Amazon’s Leadership Principles and implement them in your answers and when you describe past experiences.

The behavioral interview at this stage will be longer and more thorough than the behavioral phone interview. You’ll need to elaborate more on every answer you provide and the interviewers will “dive deep” into each of your examples with many follow-up questions. Additionally, the face-to-face interviews will include the famous "Bar Raiser" interview.

Expect to hear back from HR within five business days following your interview.

The Amazon Written Exercise is another screening step that’s usually sent before the actual face-to-face interviews. It is sent to applicants for positions in level 5 or 6 and above.

The writing exercise will be answering one of two questions. The recommended length of your answer should be 2 to 4 MS Word pages (with 11-12 font size).

In most cases, you’ll have until 48 hours before your interview to submit the written exercise.

Since the interview stage is the last and most crucial step before your hiring decision, it’d be wise to prepare for it beforehand. To learn more about the Amazon interview process and what to expect, visit our Amazon behavioral interview guide. 

We’ve teamed up with a leading interview prep platform that offers the following services for Amazon candidates:

• Behavioral interview prep
• Technical interview prep
• Mock interviews
• Written exercise help
• Offer negotiation
• System design practice

The coaching and prep services are given by former Amazon hiring managers that know Amazon’s unique culture and Leadership Principles inside out.

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