Amazon Behavioral Interview Questions | Leadership Principles Explained

You are preparing yourself for a marathon. Intimidating.

Sounds like Amazon wants robots not people!

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The stories are great and I have like 14 stories prepared. But you never know what they are going to ask or if your stories will align with what they are asking!!! I have yet to hear a good response to this on how to prepare. I had an interview today and did terrible

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Myself and friends we have practiced these types of questions for months before appearing for an interview. But what does it mean. You are not going to pick a good candidate.
Memorizing is not the same as a natural leader. These are useful to hire a parrot.
Some people are good at story telling and others are not neither may be good on floor.

You are just repeating what we can find on the Amazon's website as well. This video wasn't worth the time.

Bravo on the exceptional content. A like-minded book I read was a milestone in my personal growth. "AWS Unleashed: Mastering Amazon Web Services for Software Engineers" by Harrison Quill

Why the heck this video has 171K views when he is just divulging the principles as they are described on the Amazon website itself.

Customer Obsession
- Tell me about a time when you had a deal with a very difficult customer
- Describe a situation where you negotiated a win-win
Ownership
- Describe a tough situation in which you had to step into a leadership role
- Tell me about a tough decision you made during a project
Invent and Simplify
- Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem and how you went about doing it
- How do you handle roadblocks or obstacles
Are Right, A Lot
- Tell me about a time when you had to make a decision without much customer data
- Tell me about a time when you had to convince team members on something that you proposed
Learn and Be Curious
- Tell me about a time when you built out a process
- Tell me about a skill that you recently learned
Hire and Develop the Best
- Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with someone how did you resolve it in what did you learn
- Tell me about a time when you fired someone
Insist on the Highest Standards
- Tell me about a time when you had to make a decision to make short-term sacrifices for long-term gains
- Tell me about a time when you made a decision based on data and you were ultimately wrong
Think Big
- Tell me about your greatest success
- Tell me about a time when you were creative
Bias for Action
- How have you convinced others to take action
- How have you managed risk in a project
Frugality
- Tell me about a time when you turn down more resources to complete a project
- Tell me about a time when you had to accomplish big results with very little budget
Earn Trust
- Can you give me an example of how you manage conflict
- How do you earn the trust of your team members
Dive Deep
- Tell me about the most complex project you've worked on
- Have you changed an opinion or direction using data
Have Backbone
- Tell me about a time when you had a disagreement with your manager
- How do you manage difficult conversations
Deliver Results
- Describe a challenging project you worked on and why it was challenging
- How do you prioritize
Strive to be Earth's Best Employer
- Tell me about a time when you had to motivate a team after a demoralizing event
- Tell me about a time when an employee gave you negative feedback
Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility
- Tell me about a time you had a problem and how to discover the real cause
- Describe a time when your project failed

thank you sm!

I have modules in mail

91% of Amazon employees get no interview. Do you have an id? Ok start tomorrow. The interviews yo mention are only for real jobs. Jobs that pay you a living wage. I don’t think your video answers any questions

Practice makes better!

I was approached by Amazon for a role and went through two phases of online face to face with people but when it came to work simulation I think I didn’t do well. What are the tips?
I was given a list of other jobs I think I could be a perfect fit for and I want to be prepared enough to first pass through that work simulated stuff.

Any advice please. Thank you

Behavioural interview... i am terrified w questions in the video, is Amazon such a battle field so you have to overcome roles blocks, persuade, etc. Do people even work there?

Leaders at time non technical, mediocre, business savy, selfish, pry on otherr, cunning and opportunist. Amazon probably wants these to be said in a nice way.
Leaders isolate, glass ceil, cheat within the org to advance their cause and carreer at the cost of other employees. They know how to exploit direct reports and get work done by any means.
There are many leaders who do this and recommend others to go on corporate training on ethical behavior, unconscious bias and show/pretend to be champions of diversity and cultural promotion.
One bad leader/Manager and if you couldn't identify it.. It over for you in that org.

If you are not doing all these you are a nice leader.

no answers here - we know the questions

This is incomparable. I read a book with similar content, and it was incomparable. "The Hidden Empire: Inside the Private Worlds of Elite CEOs" by Adam Skylight

Amazon Principles

End results meeting requirements

Customer obsession
Insist on highest standards
Frugality
Bias for a actions
Deliver results


Soft skills

Ownership
Hire and develop the best
Earn trust
Have backbone, disagree and commit



Data management

Think Big
Learn and be curious
Dive deep
Invent and simplify
Are right a lot

Hi is there any principle called buyers fraction

Great information, not only for Amazon interviews, but for all types of job interviews. Like for this guy and the video!

excellent video,=.

This whole video is same as the AMZ interview process - total bolonia... That dude is so lazy and lacks of creativity, he just reads the script AMZ emails to each candidate to prep for their dummy interview..

I rearly comment on any video , this video is so good to force me to do so. very uniqualy explained.

Do these q's follow DSP interviews as well?

can i tell about personal life experience in STAR method ,if they ask about situational questions?

Loved it - Thanks!

I dont think amazon is obsesed about saving earth. They beed to plant a tree for every computer they have. They dont have backbone to accept that. Can you autoscale the trees

bro, actually i had interview slot for SEPO role in amazon from 6pm to 6;30 pm yesterday (13 may).But when i joined in Amazon CHIME at 5:57pm nobody was there in the meeting and no one came until 6:35pm then i left. What will happen now brother? still i didnt get any mail from them but i mailed them that no one was there in the meeting. Will i loose my job and opportunity? PLEASE REPLY

good

Great video. It helped in my AWS interview today. Thanks.

### Customer Obsession
- Tell me about a time when you had a deal with a very difficult customer.
- Describe a situation where you negotiated a win-win.

### Ownership
- Describe a tough situation in which you had to step into a leadership role.
- Tell me about a tough decision you made during a project.

### Invent and Simplify
- Tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem and how you went about doing it.
- How do you handle roadblocks or obstacles?

### Leaders are Right, A Lot
- Tell me about a time when you had to make a decision without much customer data.
- Tell me about a time when you had to convince team members on something that you proposed.

### Learn and Be Curious
- Tell me about a time when you built out a process.
- Tell me about a skill that you recently learned.

### Hire and Develop the Best
- Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with someone. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?
- Tell me about a time when you fired someone.

### Insist on the Highest Standards
- Tell me about a time when you had to make a decision to make short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.
- Tell me about a time when you made a decision based on data and you were ultimately wrong.

### Think Big
- Tell me about your greatest success.
- Tell me about a time when you were creative.

### Bias for Action
- How have you convinced others to take action?
- How have you managed risk in a project?

### Frugality
- Tell me about a time when you turned down more resources to complete a project.
- Tell me about a time when you had to accomplish big results with very little budget.

### Earn Trust
- Can you give me an example of how you managed conflict?
- How do you earn the trust of your team members?

### Dive Deep
- Tell me about the most complex project you've worked on.
- Have you changed an opinion or direction using data?

### Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
- Tell me about a time when you had a disagreement with your manager.
- How do you manage difficult conversations?

### Deliver Results
- Describe a challenging project you worked on and why it was challenging.
- How do you prioritize?

### Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer
- Tell me about a time when you had to motivate a team after a demoralizing event.
- Tell me about a time when an employee gave you negative feedback.

### Success and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility
- Tell me about a time you had a problem and how you discovered the real cause.
- Describe a time when your project failed.

I end the video in "tell me about a time when you fire someone". Seems not the video i should watch

you made it very clear , this answers most relevant questions. thank you so much for this video !

BRO!!! THIS IS THE MOST LEGIT PREPARATION VIDEO!! Got the JOB OFFER. THANKS MAN!!

The goal is to help the company earn more money for a long tern view.

Thank you, it helps me alot...

Thanks for the video. This has been tremendously helpful. I now know I would never want to work for Amazon. Total cult vibe.

Hello, 3 days after my Amazon LOOP interview, I received an Email from the recruiter congratulating me on the positive feedback for my interview, but unfortunately unable to offer me the position because someone else filled the position. I noticed that the position was no longer available even before my LOOP.
They said that they will put me in the bench pool and that if available position comes, they will contact all the people in the bench pool before making the position public.
I am worried, hope they will remember to get back to me?
I practiced really so hard for this LOOP

What a waste of time. He basically read out loud what’s written on Amazon’s page. 👎

Thanks for this video. So just to confirm, we should answer all these leadership related questions in the STAR method?