1) Customer Obsession 3:30 2) Ownership 3:55 3) Invent and simplify 4:20 4) Strong judgment and good instincts 4:50 5) Learn and be curious 5:10 6) Hire and develop the best 5:25 7) Insist on the highest standards 5:54 8) Think BIG 6:32 9) Bias for action 6:53 10) Frugality 7:12 11) Earn Trust 7:33 12) Dive Deep 7:57 13) Have backbone, disagree and commit 8:19 14) Deliver results 8:48 15) Strive to be Earth's best employer 9:08 16) Responsibility 9:51
Thank you for this video! I completed my second round interview for L5 position and your example questions were spot on. Of all of the Amazon Interview prep videos, the examples featured here were the most accurate based on the conversation I had. This was a massive help.
Amazon leadership principles and sample questions: 1- Customer obsession: tell me about a time you had a deal with a difficult customer. 2- Ownership: Tell me about a tough situation during your project 3- Invent and simplify: A thyme you solved a problem? 4- Strong judgment and good instincts: A time you had to make a decision with a lack of data 5- Learn and be curious: A time you build out a process 6- Hire and develop the best: A time when you had a conflict with so? 7- Insist on the highest standards: A time you had to make a decision to sacrifice short-term for long term 8- Think Big: Your greatest success? 9- Bias for action: How have you convinced others to take action? 10- Frugality: A time you turned down more resources to complete a process 11- Earn trust: An example of how you managed a conflict 12- Dive deep: The most complex project you worked on? 13- Have a backbone, disagree, commit: A time you had a disagreement with your manager? 14- Deliver results: Describe a challenging product you managed. 15- Strive to be Earth's best employer: A time you had to motivate a team after a demonizing event? 16- Responsibility: A time you had a problem and how to discover a real cause?
I have passed the interviews but I definitely don't have an answer for every one of those questions and I definitely remember saying so in the interview. one thing the interviewer told me was that if I didn't know something, to just tell him and he'll move on. if you think about it, they're gathering data points about you so stuffing around on questions you don't really know is actually going to hurt your interview chances.
Amazon leadership principles and sample questions: 1- Customer obsession: tell me about a time you had a deal with a difficult customer. Or describe a situation where you negotiated win win 2- Ownership: Tell me about a tough situation during your project or tell me a tough situation you made during a project event 3- Invent and simplify: tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem and how you went about doing it? Or How you handle roadblocks or obstacles? 4- Right a lot -Strong judgment and good instincts: tell me about A time you had to make a decision without much customer data or with a lack of data or tell me about a time when you had to convince team members on something that you proposed 5- Learn and be curious: tell me about a time you build out a process or tell me about a skill that you recently learned 6- Hire and develop the best: tell me about a time when you had a conflict with some one. How did you resolve in it, what did you learn or tell me about a time when you fired someone? 7- Insist on the highest standards: A time you had to make a decision to make short term sacrifices for long term gains or tell me about a time when you made a decision based on data and you were ultimately wrong 8- Think Big: Your greatest success? Or tell me about a time when you were creative? 9- Bias for action: How have you convinced others to take action? How have you managed risk in a project? 10- Frugality: tell me about a time you turned down more resources to complete a process or tell me about a time you had to accomplish big results with very little budget 11- Earn trust: An example of how you managed a conflict or How do you earn the trust of your team members? 12- Dive deep: : tell me about a time the most complex project you worked on? Have you changed an opinion or direction using data 13- Have a backbone, disagree, commit: : tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager? Or How do you manage difficult conversations? 14- Deliver results: Describe a challenging product you worked on why it is challenging. Or How do you prioritize 15- Strive to be Earth's best employer: : tell me about a time you had to motivate a team after a demonizing event? :tell me about a time when employee gave you a negative feedback 16- Responsibility: : tell me about a time you had a problem and how to discover a real cause? Or Describe a time when your project failed
i hate "tell me about a time" questions so much. they reveal nothing other than the ability to prepare a nice story, which may or may not be based in reality
Not really. As he said in the video, the stories demonstrate the way you think and work. I got the behavioral questions and when I started working, i found these are the things i deal with in every day.
@@anhnguyenthingoc9504 maybe your mind works differently than mine, but i don't have a file cabinet labeled "times i disagreed with my manager" that i can just open and pull a full story from when prompted. these things take rehearsal. and possibly outright fabrication
Is it correct to assume that you are an engineer? If so, that is completely understandable, as your thinking is mostly in strict linear and problem-solving mode and that does not go well with "Tell me something that is not structured"
Tell me about a time when you had to make up a story just because you needed to get the task done?? Well I was doing it right now and I would know the outcome in a few weeks!
@@dreamnvisionz Unfortunately I didn't see your comment before, there's three days left for my interview for the same role but in databases. I'd say the best we can do is prepared ourselves as good as possible and try to learn from everywhere. I'd like to know how was it? Could you give me some advice?
Nicely done video, but I'm not sure I'd want to work someplace that expects people to memorize the leadership principles as if it's some kind of religion. Are they hiring robots or people??
Im currently doing an interview now. these tips are so good and the mock questions are spot on. another interveiw is coming up this afternoon and I can use this information. This video is so awesome
This was legit very helpful to head into the interview prepared, even though I didn't landed the job. I feel like such a massive loser right now but eventually I'll find my second air.
For lots of these "tell me about a time " you have the same general area of interest : tell me about a time you had conflict with team members, tell me about a time that you had to convince team members(which is due to conflict) and more -- during the interview the candidate tries to have 5,6 stories aligned with these questions and if two different interviewer ask the above questions then obviously I have to stick with my storyline -- If i try to think of something new during the interview there is a high chance of extra stress and probably not a good result at the end... I just think 5 hours of these type of questions is unnecessary .
Of course they're not necessary...interviews are just showing an image of the person and not showing anything true about the person...Companies ask questions like this because it's easier to follow a protocol that is simplistic, instead of truly understanding people. But that's the culture and the market...suboptimal nonsense
@@jamesbondisamonkey This !! Upvoted you. Amazon has ONE OF THE HIGHEST TURNOVER IN THE WORLD. That right there should tell them their interview process does not work. Most amazoninas leave in less than 2 years. And the STAR method can be easily gamed by unethical people. BUT then the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and hoping it works.
To me it feels like they are more interested in one's personal ability to invent stories and being creative about it. I've been asked to prepare 2-3 examples for each of the 16 leadership principles, which is an insanely huge amount of things to tell. How many decades of experience do I need for the job position!? And what a great memory I need to have to be able to tell this many stories and examples over so many different topics! It feels overwhelming. I'm trying to get prepared as best as I can, but it feels like what you are asking for is not very well connected to what is needed for the actual job I've applied for. 5 interviews with 5 different interviewers, and I need to provide them all with different examples... Isn't this a bit too much?
Hey harrymason666! It is possible to have a single story cover multiple leadership principles. For example, a story of leading a team to complete a project successfully could consist of elements of: - Insist on the highest standards: How you set standards for the team - Frugality: How you overcame time/resource shortages - Earn trust: How you won your teammates over - Ownership: How you set pro-actively sought requirements - Bias for action: How you set the cadence for your team to boost productivity Essentially, a story can be very well be split into many episodes, each one with their own "lesson learned" or "strength shown" or in this case, "leadership principle". Hope this helped! Do let us know if you have further questions!
@@tryexponent Yes, thank you, this is surely helpful. This is what I'm doing right now, try to think of a few "stories" that cover more than one principle, so I can use them for different kind of questions. I really do care about this job position, I just hope I can remember everything during the interview. Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.
@@Lawmakan I have reached the final stage only to be rejected after the 7th or 8th interview. All the interviews are identical, except for the fact that they cover different leadership principles. They won't provide any explanation whatsoever about the rejection, even if you ask. It felt really frustrating, honestly, and I still can't figure out what they are trying to obtain from their candidates with this kind of interviews. A few days later I was contacted and got offered a differed job position in Ireland (the one I originally applied for was in Italy), but the salary was so low I wasn't even sure it would have been financially profitable. The whole experience let me down a lot and made me reconsider working for Amazon and applying for other positions.
@@harrymason666 I agree man, this seems a bit much. Generally one interview with hiring manager is good enough to talk about previous experiences. Anyways, did the rest of the interview go well, problem solving wise?
11:00 Don't repeat stories can be tricky. Not everyone's a storyteller. This isn't Antiquity or Medieval times. We have technology now so storytelling is a little different from what it used to be so storytelling is a skill that many may have to work on. Also, having experience to certain situations shouldn't be a detriment into your hiring. So that's also tricky.
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I want to complain about behavioral interviews. I recently interviewed for an embedded software engineer position at Amazon. Normally, if it were an interview with other companies, they would ask a lot of Linux system details and some peripherals, such as USB and PCIE. In the first round of interviews, some such questions were asked, and I answered them well. In the second round of interviews, I didn't expect that there would be many such nonsensical questions, such as, if you were given 10 tasks, how would you classify and deal with these problems. I must have failed here. The HR also told me that when telling a story, don't tell the same story to two people, but different situations will appear, so I thought I could tell the same story. There were also some sudden questions, such as telling a story that the leader did not arrange for you to do, but you took the initiative to do it. I really couldn't think of a suitable one for a while, but after the interview, I remembered that how to distinguish between two identical USB peripherals, I had done such research before. In short, my feeling is that this second round of interviews pays more attention to the ability to tell stories and not to technical issues.
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
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.
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?
Coming soon! But in the meantime, you can check out a list of answers to all the most popular behavioral questions on our site: www.tryexponent.com/questions?page=1&type=behavioral
Google for Amazon PIP before accepting Amazon offer. I like their leadership principles but those principles is a lot to ask, are they ready to pay for it? If I get an offer from Amazon I would expect 50% bonus to the average of total compensation of other big tech companies.
Pip is overhyped. 99% of the time, people who go into it deserve it. There is a 1% exception though where it's misused, which i feel is pretty normal for any given policy.
Maybe the actual numbers are not that big, but it likely creates a atmosphere of fear, especially for those who are on work visas in the US. Taking in consideration those principles it seems they are looking for the cream of the crop so the compensation should be appropriate.
What questions can we expect in a Support Engineer interview? They have mentioned both behavioral and technical questions would be asked.. Can you help anything specific. Very minimum videos for this role on TH-cam. :(
These questions are also the ones you'll find in the first interview? (in my case is a digital interview with 16 questions for a finance role, internship)
Questions related to Amazon’s Leadership Principles may not always be the focus of the first round, especially if it’s an online assessment designed to evaluate technical or role-specific capabilities. However, they are highly likely to come up in later rounds, particularly during behavioral interviews.
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
Hey MotivatedI, you've come to the right video! The aim of the Amazon work simulation assessment is to gauge if you are a good culture fit with the company. The culture of the company is defined by Amazon's 16 leadership principles as highlighted here. So if you would like to do well for this assessment, getting familiar with the leadership principles and reflecting on how they apply to your everyday work life will be helpful.
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Hey siddharthsathya8973, you don't necessarily need to refer to work experience to demonstrate the leadership principles! You can look to your school projects (e.g. when you were a group leader) or your extra-curriculum activities (e.g. sports, student council). Otherwise, you can look to your personal projects/hobbies too. Hope this helps!
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So I live in Saudi Arabia And I applied for a warehouse associate I've learned that in US they probably won't interview an associate But here in Saudi Arabia I believe they do So I'm still waiting for their response And not sure what kind of interview It will be
Brother, did you do the interview and if did how was it? My application for the position of Buying Assistant was accepted and amazon invited me for the interview,
@@beero911x7 unfortunately it's been months but no reply I've heard you must have some one in the warehouse to get a job or higher chance at least in Saudi Arabia I'm not sure about other countries But I have moved on and will try mu luck else where
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
The frugality culture at Amazon is not helpful, it certainly gave me the cringe when I learnt it. It's not that it's wrong but it is often interpreted by most of the management as not paying the right amount for the talents and always trying to squeeze the employees for productivity which eventually lead to burning out.
"Tell me about" ... ? Does anyone pay attention to the following impact: 1. An event 2. A pattern (mastery) 3. An underlying structure (culture) 4. A vision (leadership) 5. A mindset (research logic, thinking skills: system, critical, lateral, disruptive, question, inversion, scenarios/evolution, etc) 6. Spiritual experience (something extraordinary/divine) happened. Instead of STAR try (I)SBAR (Ask the interviewer, too): I-Issue/Challenge S-Situation, facts only B-Background/Context A-Assessment R-Recommendation Execution is another matter. Results in STAR should be further probed with R.O.I.: R-Immediate "R"esult O-"O"utcome, what change had to be made to support "R" I-Long term "I"mpact For example, two technicians plus an engineer resigned. After a "small" change I made, for the next two years (until the end of my employment), the company never employed those three roles. Was it a small change? If I did nothing else, until I left, the change covered the cost of all my salaries and much more? In your interview, ask Amazon: How have you got rid of "I am right you are wrong" paradigm? (How) Do you practice Lateral/Disruptive Thinking? What have you learned?
Hey Keigo! If you feel like you do not have enough stories to cover each leadership principle, you can always look to the stories you already have and see if they can cover more than one principle. Often, we can draw multiple lessons from an experience. Hope this helps!
They are demanding for quite a lot of resources but in the end their products are oversaturated with conflicting thoughts and often deviates from their own goals
True but for most of us, especially software devs, Amazon is one of the Highest paying companies in the world, and that means we'll always be trying to get in, whatever the cost
@@rangermaverick85 bruh you got to be delusional to think faang isn't one of the highest paying in the world for junior to mid level software devs, at the very least. There's a reason why people eye for them you know and there's no reason to bring country into this, even my American acquaintances feel the same way
@@tejeshreddy6252there is a cap with their salaries. You only make big bucks if you get promoted to some kind of VP or Techlead or somethin similar. Private Equity, Venture Capital or Hedgefunds (literally the endlevel of all firms) or a career in Sales/Real Estate are the way to go if you want to become a millionaire as an employee in a short timespan.
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.
Hey ronfromhk! The answers depend on your unique experiences, so they’re something only you can truly define. What we’re aiming to do here is outline the likely questions you might encounter, so you’re equipped to provide well-thought-out responses instead of having to improvise during the interview. Hope this helps!
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
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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..
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
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1) Customer Obsession 3:30
2) Ownership 3:55
3) Invent and simplify 4:20
4) Strong judgment and good instincts 4:50
5) Learn and be curious 5:10
6) Hire and develop the best 5:25
7) Insist on the highest standards 5:54
8) Think BIG 6:32
9) Bias for action 6:53
10) Frugality 7:12
11) Earn Trust 7:33
12) Dive Deep 7:57
13) Have backbone, disagree and commit 8:19
14) Deliver results 8:48
15) Strive to be Earth's best employer 9:08
16) Responsibility 9:51
Thank you for this video! I completed my second round interview for L5 position and your example questions were spot on. Of all of the Amazon Interview prep videos, the examples featured here were the most accurate based on the conversation I had. This was a massive help.
Exciting!! So glad we could help!
Amazon leadership principles and sample questions:
1- Customer obsession: tell me about a time you had a deal with a difficult customer.
2- Ownership: Tell me about a tough situation during your project
3- Invent and simplify: A thyme you solved a problem?
4- Strong judgment and good instincts: A time you had to make a decision with a lack of data
5- Learn and be curious: A time you build out a process
6- Hire and develop the best: A time when you had a conflict with so?
7- Insist on the highest standards: A time you had to make a decision to sacrifice short-term for long term
8- Think Big: Your greatest success?
9- Bias for action: How have you convinced others to take action?
10- Frugality: A time you turned down more resources to complete a process
11- Earn trust: An example of how you managed a conflict
12- Dive deep: The most complex project you worked on?
13- Have a backbone, disagree, commit: A time you had a disagreement with your manager?
14- Deliver results: Describe a challenging product you managed.
15- Strive to be Earth's best employer: A time you had to motivate a team after a demonizing event?
16- Responsibility: A time you had a problem and how to discover a real cause?
awesome man, thanks
A thyme I solved a problem? Adding more of it to season a turkey tetrazzini
Thanks alot. Brother..🎉👍
Thanks
Exactly why I came to the comments. Thanks a ton.
BRO!!! THIS IS THE MOST LEGIT PREPARATION VIDEO!! Got the JOB OFFER. THANKS MAN!!
Congratulations! We're glad the video helped. Thanks for being part of Exponent.
Which position did you interview for?
I have passed the interviews but I definitely don't have an answer for every one of those questions and I definitely remember saying so in the interview. one thing the interviewer told me was that if I didn't know something, to just tell him and he'll move on. if you think about it, they're gathering data points about you so stuffing around on questions you don't really know is actually going to hurt your interview chances.
Hey, is it possible to contact you privately...i have an interview in a few weeks n i would like to ask you some questions
@@Amyou-mn5sehow was your interview?
@@Amyou-mn5se hi how about your interview?
Amazon leadership principles and sample questions:
1- Customer obsession: tell me about a time you had a deal with a difficult customer. Or describe a situation where you negotiated win win
2- Ownership: Tell me about a tough situation during your project or tell me a tough situation you made during a project event
3- Invent and simplify: tell me about a time when you solved a complex problem and how you went about doing it? Or How you handle roadblocks or obstacles?
4- Right a lot -Strong judgment and good instincts: tell me about A time you had to make a decision without much customer data or with a lack of data or tell me about a time when you had to convince team members on something that you proposed
5- Learn and be curious: tell me about a time you build out a process or tell me about a skill that you recently learned
6- Hire and develop the best: tell me about a time when you had a conflict with some one. How did you resolve in it, what did you learn or tell me about a time when you fired someone?
7- Insist on the highest standards: A time you had to make a decision to make short term sacrifices for long term gains or tell me about a time when you made a decision based on data and you were ultimately wrong
8- Think Big: Your greatest success? Or tell me about a time when you were creative?
9- Bias for action: How have you convinced others to take action? How have you managed risk in a project?
10- Frugality: tell me about a time you turned down more resources to complete a process or tell me about a time you had to accomplish big results with very little budget
11- Earn trust: An example of how you managed a conflict or How do you earn the trust of your team members?
12- Dive deep: : tell me about a time the most complex project you worked on? Have you changed an opinion or direction using data
13- Have a backbone, disagree, commit: : tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager? Or How do you manage difficult conversations?
14- Deliver results: Describe a challenging product you worked on why it is challenging. Or How do you prioritize
15- Strive to be Earth's best employer: : tell me about a time you had to motivate a team after a demonizing event? :tell me about a time when employee gave you a negative feedback
16- Responsibility: : tell me about a time you had a problem and how to discover a real cause? Or Describe a time when your project failed
Customer obsession means - * Can you give an example of a time when you went above and beyond for a customer?
i hate "tell me about a time" questions so much. they reveal nothing other than the ability to prepare a nice story, which may or may not be based in reality
Not really. As he said in the video, the stories demonstrate the way you think and work. I got the behavioral questions and when I started working, i found these are the things i deal with in every day.
@@anhnguyenthingoc9504 maybe your mind works differently than mine, but i don't have a file cabinet labeled "times i disagreed with my manager" that i can just open and pull a full story from when prompted. these things take rehearsal. and possibly outright fabrication
The follow up questions on that story does reveal a lot
Is it correct to assume that you are an engineer? If so, that is completely understandable, as your thinking is mostly in strict linear and problem-solving mode and that does not go well with "Tell me something that is not structured"
Tell me about a time when you had to make up a story just because you needed to get the task done?? Well I was doing it right now and I would know the outcome in a few weeks!
Thank you dude. You prepared me well and I landed a job!
Nice job!
Do we have to byheart all 16 leadership principles word to word? That's difficult to do
I have my third/ final round interview for AWS Cloud Support Engineer-Security role in less than a week, any advice?
@@dreamnvisionz Unfortunately I didn't see your comment before, there's three days left for my interview for the same role but in databases. I'd say the best we can do is prepared ourselves as good as possible and try to learn from everywhere. I'd like to know how was it? Could you give me some advice?
@SantiagoBocanegraGutierrez did you get the job? How was the interview process?
Nicely done video, but I'm not sure I'd want to work someplace that expects people to memorize the leadership principles as if it's some kind of religion. Are they hiring robots or people??
robotic people
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Yeah literally. One of the principles say "have fun at work". Fun at Amazon? Lol
Thank you man I got the role. You helped so much man!
Congratulations TamichealBK! 🎉🎉
Glad that we were able to help!
Im currently doing an interview now. these tips are so good and the mock questions are spot on. another interveiw is coming up this afternoon and I can use this information. This video is so awesome
Best of luck with your interview!
How did it go? Did you receive an offer?
I guess not. 😢
This was legit very helpful to head into the interview prepared, even though I didn't landed the job. I feel like such a massive loser right now but eventually I'll find my second air.
Hey RealestAlex! Sorry to hear about the job. Don't give up! You got this! 😤
You are preparing yourself for a marathon. Intimidating.
For lots of these "tell me about a time " you have the same general area of interest : tell me about a time you had conflict with team members, tell me about a time that you had to convince team members(which is due to conflict) and more -- during the interview the candidate tries to have 5,6 stories aligned with these questions and if two different interviewer ask the above questions then obviously I have to stick with my storyline -- If i try to think of something new during the interview there is a high chance of extra stress and probably not a good result at the end... I just think 5 hours of these type of questions is unnecessary .
Of course they're not necessary...interviews are just showing an image of the person and not showing anything true about the person...Companies ask questions like this because it's easier to follow a protocol that is simplistic, instead of truly understanding people. But that's the culture and the market...suboptimal nonsense
@@jamesbondisamonkey This !! Upvoted you. Amazon has ONE OF THE HIGHEST TURNOVER IN THE WORLD. That right there should tell them their interview process does not work. Most amazoninas leave in less than 2 years. And the STAR method can be easily gamed by unethical people. BUT then the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and hoping it works.
To me it feels like they are more interested in one's personal ability to invent stories and being creative about it. I've been asked to prepare 2-3 examples for each of the 16 leadership principles, which is an insanely huge amount of things to tell. How many decades of experience do I need for the job position!? And what a great memory I need to have to be able to tell this many stories and examples over so many different topics! It feels overwhelming. I'm trying to get prepared as best as I can, but it feels like what you are asking for is not very well connected to what is needed for the actual job I've applied for. 5 interviews with 5 different interviewers, and I need to provide them all with different examples... Isn't this a bit too much?
Hey harrymason666! It is possible to have a single story cover multiple leadership principles. For example, a story of leading a team to complete a project successfully could consist of elements of:
- Insist on the highest standards: How you set standards for the team
- Frugality: How you overcame time/resource shortages
- Earn trust: How you won your teammates over
- Ownership: How you set pro-actively sought requirements
- Bias for action: How you set the cadence for your team to boost productivity
Essentially, a story can be very well be split into many episodes, each one with their own "lesson learned" or "strength shown" or in this case, "leadership principle". Hope this helped! Do let us know if you have further questions!
@@tryexponent Yes, thank you, this is surely helpful. This is what I'm doing right now, try to think of a few "stories" that cover more than one principle, so I can use them for different kind of questions. I really do care about this job position, I just hope I can remember everything during the interview. Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.
@@harrymason666 How did the interview go, and what was the result?
@@Lawmakan I have reached the final stage only to be rejected after the 7th or 8th interview. All the interviews are identical, except for the fact that they cover different leadership principles. They won't provide any explanation whatsoever about the rejection, even if you ask. It felt really frustrating, honestly, and I still can't figure out what they are trying to obtain from their candidates with this kind of interviews. A few days later I was contacted and got offered a differed job position in Ireland (the one I originally applied for was in Italy), but the salary was so low I wasn't even sure it would have been financially profitable. The whole experience let me down a lot and made me reconsider working for Amazon and applying for other positions.
@@harrymason666 I agree man, this seems a bit much. Generally one interview with hiring manager is good enough to talk about previous experiences. Anyways, did the rest of the interview go well, problem solving wise?
you made it very clear , this answers most relevant questions. thank you so much for this video !
Great video. It helped in my AWS interview today. Thanks.
Glad we could help. Hope you did well!
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Don't repeat stories can be tricky.
Not everyone's a storyteller. This isn't Antiquity or Medieval times. We have technology now so storytelling is a little different from what it used to be so storytelling is a skill that many may have to work on.
Also, having experience to certain situations shouldn't be a detriment into your hiring. So that's also tricky.
This story telling is bullshit stuff. Not every situation can be explained in a few lines just for the sake of this meaningless endeavor.
@@vendetta3953 depends on if the person you're asking , if his livelihood depends on it , sure he'll learn !!!
I rearly comment on any video , this video is so good to force me to do so. very uniqualy explained.
Thank you for the kind words!
Great information, not only for Amazon interviews, but for all types of job interviews. Like for this guy and the video!
Awesome summary, great prep tool, thx a lot!!!
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This information is very useful.
excellent video,=.
I want to complain about behavioral interviews. I recently interviewed for an embedded software engineer position at Amazon. Normally, if it were an interview with other companies, they would ask a lot of Linux system details and some peripherals, such as USB and PCIE. In the first round of interviews, some such questions were asked, and I answered them well. In the second round of interviews, I didn't expect that there would be many such nonsensical questions, such as, if you were given 10 tasks, how would you classify and deal with these problems. I must have failed here. The HR also told me that when telling a story, don't tell the same story to two people, but different situations will appear, so I thought I could tell the same story. There were also some sudden questions, such as telling a story that the leader did not arrange for you to do, but you took the initiative to do it. I really couldn't think of a suitable one for a while, but after the interview, I remembered that how to distinguish between two identical USB peripherals, I had done such research before.
In short, my feeling is that this second round of interviews pays more attention to the ability to tell stories and not to technical issues.
Thank you so much. I hope for the best today.
What interview do u have?
@@Ali-et9lk area manager. This video was a huge helpl
@@Boyimabeast That’s amazing! I’m doing for operations engineering intern, I’ve an interview soon
@@Boyimabeast any other resources u r using beside this?
Loved it - Thanks!
Thank you, it helps me alot...
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
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.
Thank you. Very informative.
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?
Thanks for this video. So just to confirm, we should answer all these leadership related questions in the STAR method?
Hey feri86! While It's not necessary to do so, we do find the framework to be quite useful in coming up with a comprehensive answer.
liked subscribed and commented! great video
Yeah we keep hearing these questions from many companies, do you have a video for sample best answers?
Coming soon! But in the meantime, you can check out a list of answers to all the most popular behavioral questions on our site: www.tryexponent.com/questions?page=1&type=behavioral
Practice makes better!
The goal is to help the company earn more money for a long tern view.
Thanks for the video. This has been tremendously helpful. I now know I would never want to work for Amazon. Total cult vibe.
Google for Amazon PIP before accepting Amazon offer. I like their leadership principles but those principles is a lot to ask, are they ready to pay for it? If I get an offer from Amazon I would expect 50% bonus to the average of total compensation of other big tech companies.
Pip is overhyped. 99% of the time, people who go into it deserve it. There is a 1% exception though where it's misused, which i feel is pretty normal for any given policy.
Maybe the actual numbers are not that big, but it likely creates a atmosphere of fear, especially for those who are on work visas in the US. Taking in consideration those principles it seems they are looking for the cream of the crop so the compensation should be appropriate.
What questions can we expect in a Support Engineer interview? They have mentioned both behavioral and technical questions would be asked.. Can you help anything specific. Very minimum videos for this role on TH-cam. :(
These questions are also the ones you'll find in the first interview? (in my case is a digital interview with 16 questions for a finance role, internship)
Questions related to Amazon’s Leadership Principles may not always be the focus of the first round, especially if it’s an online assessment designed to evaluate technical or role-specific capabilities. However, they are highly likely to come up in later rounds, particularly during behavioral interviews.
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
Hey MotivatedI, you've come to the right video!
The aim of the Amazon work simulation assessment is to gauge if you are a good culture fit with the company. The culture of the company is defined by Amazon's 16 leadership principles as highlighted here. So if you would like to do well for this assessment, getting familiar with the leadership principles and reflecting on how they apply to your everyday work life will be helpful.
can i tell about personal life experience in STAR method ,if they ask about situational questions?
Yes, using the STAR method to describe your personal life experience when answering a situational interview question would work!
Do these q's follow DSP interviews as well?
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its a great story just hard to tell in this shit centered interview.
I have my interview in a hour I’ll be back to lyk if I got it !
How did you do? :)
we are still waiting
Hi is there any principle called buyers fraction
Hey sushmagangadasari2626! There is no such principle...
How do I prepare for this as a fresher intern with no prior work experience?
Hey siddharthsathya8973, you don't necessarily need to refer to work experience to demonstrate the leadership principles! You can look to your school projects (e.g. when you were a group leader) or your extra-curriculum activities (e.g. sports, student council). Otherwise, you can look to your personal projects/hobbies too.
Hope this helps!
anybody nailed the interview by studying this videos?
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So I live in Saudi Arabia
And I applied for a warehouse associate
I've learned that in US they probably won't interview an associate
But here in Saudi Arabia
I believe they do
So I'm still waiting for their response
And not sure
what kind of interview It will be
Good luck! These questions are mostly common for software engineers and tech workers.
@@tryexponent thanks
I guess I have to wait and bare my stupid boss
Till I get response from Amazon
Thanks for your reply
Brother, did you do the interview and if did how was it? My application for the position of Buying Assistant was accepted and amazon invited me for the interview,
@@beero911x7 unfortunately it's been months but no reply
I've heard you must have some one in the warehouse to get a job or higher chance at least in Saudi Arabia
I'm not sure about other countries
But I have moved on and will try mu luck else where
Would be cool if you added sample answers.
We break down sample answers to every principle in this blog post! blog.tryexponent.com/how-to-nail-amazons-behavioral-interview-questions/
thank you very much Sir
No wonder Amazon is a universally hated place to work at.
I end the video in "tell me about a time when you fire someone". Seems not the video i should watch
thank you sm!
This would be a great video if he actually gave examples
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
if you find that no boby is at room on time, you should contact HR instantly.
The frugality culture at Amazon is not helpful, it certainly gave me the cringe when I learnt it. It's not that it's wrong but it is often interpreted by most of the management as not paying the right amount for the talents and always trying to squeeze the employees for productivity which eventually lead to burning out.
Good to know!
"Tell me about" ... ?
Does anyone pay attention to the following impact:
1. An event
2. A pattern (mastery)
3. An underlying structure (culture)
4. A vision (leadership)
5. A mindset (research logic, thinking skills: system, critical, lateral, disruptive, question, inversion, scenarios/evolution, etc)
6. Spiritual experience (something extraordinary/divine) happened.
Instead of STAR try (I)SBAR (Ask the interviewer, too):
I-Issue/Challenge
S-Situation, facts only
B-Background/Context
A-Assessment
R-Recommendation
Execution is another matter.
Results in STAR should be further probed with R.O.I.:
R-Immediate "R"esult
O-"O"utcome, what change had to be made to support "R"
I-Long term "I"mpact
For example, two technicians plus an engineer resigned. After a "small" change I made, for the next two years (until the end of my employment), the company never employed those three roles. Was it a small change? If I did nothing else, until I left, the change covered the cost of all my salaries and much more?
In your interview, ask Amazon: How have you got rid of "I am right you are wrong" paradigm? (How) Do you practice Lateral/Disruptive Thinking? What have you learned?
1:08 at least in theory 🤣
What if you don’t have enough stories?
Hey Keigo! If you feel like you do not have enough stories to cover each leadership principle, you can always look to the stories you already have and see if they can cover more than one principle. Often, we can draw multiple lessons from an experience. Hope this helps!
@@tryexponent that is possible. In this case should I mention that the example was already used but it can cover the new specific LP?
Most of these principles sound like those of a cult. :D I will never bother applying for Amazon based on just reading these.
They are demanding for quite a lot of resources but in the end their products are oversaturated with conflicting thoughts and often deviates from their own goals
True but for most of us, especially software devs, Amazon is one of the Highest paying companies in the world, and that means we'll always be trying to get in, whatever the cost
@@tejeshreddy6252 highest paying company in the world ? You need some more research. But I understand that indians are obsessed about maangs
@@rangermaverick85 bruh you got to be delusional to think faang isn't one of the highest paying in the world for junior to mid level software devs, at the very least. There's a reason why people eye for them you know and there's no reason to bring country into this, even my American acquaintances feel the same way
@@tejeshreddy6252there is a cap with their salaries. You only make big bucks if you get promoted to some kind of VP or Techlead or somethin similar. Private Equity, Venture Capital or Hedgefunds (literally the endlevel of all firms) or a career in Sales/Real Estate are the way to go if you want to become a millionaire as an employee in a short timespan.
Why the heck this video has 171K views when he is just divulging the principles as they are described on the Amazon website itself.
Bcz nowadays people are allergic to reading
I wonder how many better qualified people have lost jobs to someone more charming but incompetent.
good
tell me about a time u were making a story onspot time to clear interview 😂
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.
You only asked questions. Where are the answers?
Hey ronfromhk! The answers depend on your unique experiences, so they’re something only you can truly define. What we’re aiming to do here is outline the likely questions you might encounter, so you’re equipped to provide well-thought-out responses instead of having to improvise during the interview.
Hope this helps!
So many leadership principal still Amazon Prime Videos works like shit
no answers here - we know the questions
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
I have modules in mail
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Tell me about a time.... ooooooshut the f$#k up...! I hate those questions. 😂 I dont have millions stories on file to spit out randomly
What a waste of time. He basically read out loud what’s written on Amazon’s page. 👎
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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..
You are just repeating what we can find on the Amazon's website as well. This video wasn't worth the time.
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
Wow this video actually made me get the freacking job !! What is your paypal for donation? :D
tell me about a time when you had to pass behavioral interview without memorizing fancy mumbo jumbo stories lol