Amazon Behavioral Interview Questions | Leadership Principles Explained

Behavioral questions are big in Amazon interviews, but what are they? In this video, we'll show you how to answer them and boost your interview chances.

Chapters -
00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - Behavioral interview questions
02:10 - STAR method
02:56 - How should you prepare? Leadership principles
10:51 - Advice

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[fundamxd]

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

[aminflash]

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?

[Ntriouslover]

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.

[dww]

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

[OneIdeaTooMany]

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.

[bekakilov]

Thank you dude. You prepared me well and I landed a job!

[cofi]

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

[ramkumarch]

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

[klcefrh]

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

[Tamicheal]

Thank you man I got the role. You helped so much man!

[realestalex]

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.

[ravin]

liked subscribed and commented! great video

[PhotoBrad]

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??

[soheilirani]

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 .

[havingfuninfl]

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

[lecathesavagegirl]

You are preparing yourself for a marathon. Intimidating.

[stickyamor]

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

[FinalRoundAI]

Thank you for the video. We've come across a lot of job hunters who have impressive backgrounds and relevant work experiences for the job they are interviewing for. However, they still failed their interviews, not because they are incapable of doing the job, but because they don't know how to effectively sell themselves to others. Final Round AI is here to help, we are all about delivering tailored answers in real-time to help you nail those interviews.

[John-]

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

[harrymason]

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?