10 Mistakes To Avoid During The Amazon Interview
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Answer any question, Avoid being quiet, The 14 Leadership Principles, The Behavioral Interview, Falling in love with Jeff Bezos, Failure stories, Be fresh at the onsite, Prepare to dive deep, Be Yourself, Supercharge Your Resume.
35 behavioral questions asked in 95% of Amazon interviews with examples
Team / time management (positive & negative) • Amazon Interview Quest...
1. Tell me about a time when you were not able to meet a time commitment. What prevented you from meeting it? What was the outcome and what did you learn from it?
2. Describe a long-term project that you managed. How did you keep everything moving along in a timely manner?
3. Give me an example of a time when you set a goal and were able to meet or achieve it
Adaptation • Amazon Interview: Tell...
4. Tell me about a time you had to quickly adjust your work priorities to meet changing demands.
Team / decision • Answering Amazon Inter...
5. an example when you had to push back to HQ or challenged a decision
6. Tell me about the toughest decision you've had to make in the past six months
7. Tell me about a decision that you regret.
Team / leadership • Answering Amazon Inter...
8. What did you do when you needed to motivate a group of individuals?
9. Tell me about a time you stepped up into a leadership role
Team / communication & negotiation • Answering Amazon Inter...
10. Do you collaborate well?
11. Describe a situation when you negotiated with others in your organization to reach agreement.
Team / coworkers • Answering Amazon Inter...
12. We've all had to work with people that don't like us. How do you deal with someone that doesn't like you?
13. We all make mistakes we wish we could take back. Tell me about a time you wish you’d handled a situation differently with a colleague.
14. The last time you had to apologize to someone
Team / conflict • Amazon Interview: when...
15. Give me an example of a time you faced a conflict while working on a team. How did you handle that?
16. Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback from your manager. How did you respond?
Problem solving • Answering 5 Amazon Int...
17. Tell me about a time when you missed an obvious solution to a problem
18. A time when you faced a problem that had multiple possible solutions
19. Tell me about a time when you came up with a new approach to a problem.
20. Describe a time when you anticipated potential problems and developed preventive measures.
21. Describe a situation in which you found a creative way to overcome an obstacle.
Strategy / data • Answering Amazon behav...
22. How have you leveraged data to develop a strategy?
23. a time when you were 75% through a project, & you had to pivot strategy
24. Tell me about a time when you had to choose between technologies for a project
25. Tell me about a time you had to deal with ambiguity
Innovation • Answering Amazon Inter...
26. What’s the most innovative new idea that you have implemented?
Ownership principle • How To Answer Ownershi...
27. Describe a time when you sacrificed short term goals for long term success
28. Provide an example of when you personally demonstrate ownership.
Strength / weakness • Answering Amazon Inter...
29. What's your greatest strength
30. Biggest weakness
Clients • Amazon Interview Quest...
31. We all deal with difficult customers from time to time. Tell me about a challenging client-facing situation and how you handled it.
32. How do you show customer obsession?
Failure • How to answer Amazon I...
33. Tell me about a time you recovered from a difficult situation
34. Tell me about a time you failed and what you learned from it
35. Why Amazon • How to answer “Why Ama...
If you are never used coaching service. I recommended you book a session with dan. I booked 2 and it helped me land a job from amazon. The technical rounds wasn’t perfect, so I think it’s the behavior rounds gave me the job.
I thought i was good before booking the sessions but it turns out I learnt a lot from the sessions.
Thank you Jerry!
Hello Jerry, what position were you interviewed?
English is my 2nd language, will that affect the hiring decision?
@@kikilala365 do not worry Amazon hires lots of asians and indians
@@DanCroitor I have an interview scheduled next week. I'm quite comfortable with the situational stuff. I'm concerned about how much there going to dwell on the technical stuff. Specifically the Linux stuff which I'm weak on. I past the phone screening comfortably though. I'm at the 4 person face to face interview stage.
Thank you so much, your videos helped me crack the interview!
I DID ask for another question half way into my 5th interview of the day as I could only think of an example I had given earlier in the day (I explained this to him). The interviewer was more than happy to ask a new question and so we carried on - I got the job.
Based on your experience in the AWS interviews. How long can you wait to respond to a question?
Went zero prepared for an AWS interview and got the job. While in AWS prepared for a month for an internal job transition, yet failed miserably. And at that time i was coached by 4 managers inside AWS before the interview, who themselves were hiring managers and bar raisers. The key to getting a job at Amazon or a job at any company is be yourself and present your core technical and problem solving skills honestly. Everything after that is a bit of luck and alignment of stars. All the best
some people do need training / coaching / mentoring to become an even better version of themselves
Been working at Amazon 6 months now and loving it, thanks for helping me interview prep!! Not only helped to get in but also understand Amazon culture and how we can be our best self!
Great to hear!
Hi Spartan!! I'll have an interview next week for Amazon, could you tell me more less how the process is? And some tricks to get successful?
Thank you so much for your videos Dan! I just got a call from HR at amazon telling me that I got the offer! I watched about a dozen of your videos and the insights really helped a lot!
That is awesome! Congrats Tarsicio! stay safe
Thank you very much for this informative video, really helped me prepare for my interview with Amazon
Marián Siegfried what’s the outcome of the interview???
Thank you Dan. Your AWS videos helped me a lot with my own interviews.
Great to hear!
Hello Dan! Your videos are sooo useful! I have watched them all before my interview and they made me an offer! Thank you!!!
Congrats Martina!
Hi Dan! Your videos are extremely helpful and a good resource for preparation! Quick question... are the questions you listed with the purple background examples of questions you were given when you interviewed there? thanks so much!
Sandra Carneiro the questions he listed are word for word what I was asked. Sometimes even the same question by a different interviewer... Redundant
Dan thank you for all you do on your channel, thanks to your insight I have been invited for an on-site interview will let you know if I get the job
Hello Dan! Thank you for the information. I will have my online interview tomorrow for AST (Ad Success Team). Do you have any feedback regarding the behavioral interview for this position? Thank you!!
thank you for your awesome coaching! I just received an offer from AWS and all your tutorials on LP really really helped
You are so welcome!
Thank you sir for your hard work I just got accepted at Amazon. God bless you
Hey Khethile, how long was the process applying online till the interview?
@@nqobilemsomi3656 I took them a week to respond to my application and we then schedule a phone interview.
@@khethelihlemlambo9919 Wow that's great to hear. Congratulations. I wish you all the best. I am still waiting for feedback, from my application.
@@nqobilemsomi3656 Hopefully they will respond, things are a bit slow because of this pandemic.
@@khethelihlemlambo9919 thank you, I have already gotten that job as we speak LOA
great advice, thanks!
Thank you great information!
Thanks a lot for your videos, they are very helpful and informative and they helped me get a position as Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
So helpful, thanks
Thank you Dan. You really have created a wonderful content. Kudos.
I appreciate that! Good luck!
Hi Dan, just want to thank you for the videos that you've shared on CZcams. They helped me a lot during my Interview preparation and I recently got an offer from AWS. It's my dream company to work for and all this wouldn't have been possible without going through the brilliant content that you've posted - I will highly recommend your CZcams channel to anyone who wishes to crack the Amazon interview. Thanks again !
Congrats Akshay!
Brilliant Dan (as usual). Unfortunately I did not have enough time to prepare my interview so I will follow your advise. "Be yourself". Will be great if could please tell me if you have a video for AWS interviews.
The thinking out loud and brainstorming idea really helps, b/c I just read a book on how to be a successful female engineer and in that book the author said to stop thinking out loud. So glad that thinking out loud is good.
May I ask what this book is called? I would love to have a read as well. :)
It's a great time to be a woman in the tech industry.
At my former employer, women got first dibs on any open management positions.
Female engineers are so scarce that they are pretty much guaranteed a spot in many large tech companies. When I worked for a large computer company, HR told us that we HAD to hire a female engineer. We made offers to four different female candidates and we were outbid every time by other tech companies. After trying for almost two years to hire a woman, we ended up finally making an offer to a male college graduate and he is still working for that same company.
When I was in college, IBM came to interview but the recruiter told us that IBM would only consider women and minority candidates. IBM hired the worst student in my graduating class. IBM only hired him because there were no women in my graduating class.
Thank you, Dan.
Hi Dan. Thanks for sharing. It's very informative. I watched all your tutorials about Amazon and I finally landed an offer today as a Financial Analyst. I will definitely recommend your video to Amazon applicants. Thanks again for your help!
Congrats Kimi! and thank you for sharing
Hi Kimi, did you receive any technical questions and if so what were they? Thank you so much!
Hi Kimi, can you share what sort of questions they asked? Did you also have to be interviewed by a panel of5 ?
@@JECHANNY I remember 80% were behavioural questions re LPs and 20% were technical ones re data projects from my resume. Yes I was.
@@kimpei2967 Thanks! I have a phone screen today..hopefully it will go to plan.
Dan, thank you so much for your many helpful videos. I watched several of your videos while prepping for my interview loop with Amazon. I found all the videos I saw to be helpful, but this video was one of my favorites. In the loop I was asked what I would describe as some fairly tough behavioural questions, harder than any other interview I've done. But I answered confidently because I knew what to expect and I had prepared my stories. These videos were a key part of that.
Today I received an offer! It is definitely a step up in my career. BIG thanks to Dan for his help!
Congrats! and thank you for sharing your experience.
Thank you. It sounds to me that going on an Amazon interview would be my first mistake! Sounds intense!
Hi Dan do you have any list for Business Analyst questions?
Just secured an interview at Amazon. Wish me luck.
Good luck! Can you update us please? I applied too
@@hudaguidance507 Yea for sure.
@@hudaguidance507 Didn't get it :( Very odd interview. Heavy focus on the 14 leadership rules. The weirdest thing is I answered all the questions confidently and swiftly. Developed a pretty good rapport with the 4 interviewers. One of them even let slip that I was there ideal candidate. I'm a little confused, frustrated and saddened right now, but I'll keep marching forward. :)
eon001 thats sad man i can feel it. But all is for good.. having said that i have my second round telephone tomorrow. Pray for me 😜
@@dines1983 Good luck brotha. I wish you much success. I wish I could give you advice, but I thought I done great and still failed so what do I know? lol :P
Thanks for putting these tips together. I appreciate the well thought out and concise explanations.
Glad it was helpful!
@@DanCroitor Great news! I got the job! Thanks again for the help!
@@dronionmonkey Congrats Daniel! Any advice / tips and tricks for others going through the process?
What you have in your video is pretty spot on and was really helpful. Something I wish I studied more about is scalability for the whiteboard system design interview. Distributed systems is a great topic to know in depth.
Prep that really helped me was writing down relevant experiences for each of the amazon leadership principles, and remembering to be myself. Studying all the common algorithms on a site like code chef also helped a lot. Remembering to think out loud helped me catch a lot of things I would have done wrong. The interviewer was able to follow my thought process and caught a few things for me, even.
Sorry if these are a bit vague, but I don't want to say anything I'm not supposed to.
@@dronionmonkey That's excellent advice, thanks Daniel!
I just interviewed for Amazon and watched your videos to prepare. I hope to get the job on 2/04/2020. I am hoping and praying. 💪🏾
hi Chris pls what role did you interview for
Well I didn’t get the job, but it was for DSL position. That is a short term disability case manager position.
@@ChrisFrazierthecoach thank you for your response. And sorry for that u didnt get the job. Keep pushing sth greater is coming
I am not giving up at all. Thanks for your kind words.
Chris Frazier I’m interviewing for the same position Thursday any tips ?
I have cleared two round of interview for Network Technician AWS and now HR arranging third round- onsite panel interview, please brief me about the on-site panel interview with good tips.
Thank you so much sir it is very help to interview
Your videos have helped me pass my interview! Thank you!
Congrats Meme! do you have any advice for others going through the process?
@@DanCroitor My advice would for others would be for them to be themselves mostly. Do not overthink the interview process because it is much easier than you think it would be. Practice your STAR scenarios and again, be you!
@@memekirkland4436 Thanks for the feedback!
@@memekirkland4436 Thank you for the advice!
Dan your content has been so helpful during my recruiting process at Amazon. I’m headed to my onsite interview next week!
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Very helpful , thanks!
Glad to hear it!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I am on to the "loop" round!
What is the loop round?
@@alihkassem I hope it's better than the loop square (sorry had to do it)
@@alihkassem The interview Loop is the last step in Amazon recruitment process. You are interviewed by 4 to 7 different people (HR, Desired Area, etc)
I just completed my interview loop on Amazon. Thank you for the contents! All the best!
how did it go?
@@DanCroitor I got an offer as data scientist! Thank you again!
@@tqw1423 Congrats!
I have some general questions if it's not too much trouble.
1. How bad does it lower my chances if I needed hints or help from my interviewer to solve a technical question?
2. Also do they actually run the code or review it after the interview? I feel like I made a mistake and I corrected my mistake in a thank you letter. Is it too late?
Could you please update us on your interview, and if you heard back?
Thanks for this. I got selected in amazon
Congrats! ans thanks for supporting my channel with your feedback
I think most great companies want to hire great people, not necessarily great technicians. It must be true because I know I usually succeed where more experienced or better technically qualified people often fail. There is a Venn Diagram where technical skills and people skills overlap. I think it is the sweet spot that opens doors for people like me who are in the top 10-15% of both but not the top 1% of either one or the other. I really preach this to those that I mentor in the IT world and I see it applying across a broad swath of the technical giants. Be a great engineer and someone who loves people, even if you aren't the very best of either...
Amazon only hires two types of people: those on visas that work cheap and 2: those with very AWS certification. They want billable cheap resources from Day 1. Making money is their mantra and not paying taxes. They don't care about anything else. Or you need to be buddies with a VP at Amazon or well connected to bypass the stress day long interview process.
good point. i had been reading something similar , that its better (easier) to be top 25% in two skills and combine them, than expect to be the top 5% and dominate a very specific field.
Actually Amazon salaries are AMAZING for experienced engineers.
Dear Dan: It is so great I found this videos on youtube. This is really helpful. Today I received a notification about a telephone interview, so I chose next coming Friday. I am applying for a position as Senior Finance Analyst and I started to get ready for my phone interview. I don't to miss this chance to belong to the amazonians group. I would like to receive any advice from you in order to go to the next level. Please can you give me some time to get a Coach session with you?
Hello, Currently I am preparing for the Amazon interview, we can collaborate and discuss our behavioral examples.
Hey dan, just wanted to say that I've recently accepted an enterprise sales role at AWS and would not have been able to do it without your videos. You should add a PayPal donation or similar to your site as I'd love to donate to say thanks
That is awesome!
Hello Dan, how to answer ‘tell me about yourself’ ?
Hi Dan, I really appreciate it for your videos, just got the offer from Amazon. This is a great opportunity that can make my life different.
Congrats and thank you for sharing!
good video
Good one, the recruiter at AWS pointed me to this video. ;)
I just went on a onsite interview at Amazon. Was extremely annoyed at the behavioral interview. I felt the interviewers themselves would not impress me if I asked them the same questions...And I was proven right. I had asked them the same questions they did but using different words and was not impressed by what they had to say! Tsk tsk tsk I guess beyond the leadership principles it boils down to how the panel rates you (thumbs up or down) or if you raised the bar in their eyes. And that is very subjective as it can disqualify you regardless of how well you adhered to leadership principles or technical aspects. Not sure I want to work at a company like Amazon anymore and will look elsewhere.
Also don't expect any feedback. Just a simple "we decided not to go forward"
Thank you for the feedback
Which site were you interviewed?
This just happened to me last week. I didn't ask them those questions though. They obviously want to hire robots, not real humans. I had more experience than 5 of the 6 interviewers, most seemed happy with my answers. I know a guy who got half the answers wrong and was still hired though. I don't think Amazon could find its ass with both hands. Total Clown Show.
@@marcusjjabber Herndon, VA
@@YamFZR93 Agreed
How can I book session with you?
Thank you for this video. I had a question to ask, if it's not too much trouble. I have a virtual interview with Amazon for an Environmental Health and Safety Specialist position would you be able to recommend questions and/or things I should avoid and should not avoid for it, please? I would really appreciate and be grateful for constructive help.
brenny feliz How did the virtual interview go? What kind of questions did they ask if you don’t mind sharing .
Like it!
Anyone know how long it take Amazon to get you the official offer? I interviewed two weeks ago, got the verbal offer three days later, and have been waiting for the official offer.
It usually takes them a while..
@@DanCroitor Thanks! I was worried because they told me they would stay in touch with me and get back to me last week but haven't heard anything and also they didn't respond to my follow up email this Monday. Anyways thank you for posting these videos. They are very helpful!!
Is it a good idea to have notes in response to the behavioral questions on hand for virtual interviews? I would be grateful for a response, sir.
if your question is for telephone interviews, then probably yes, so long as you're not going to read your answers from there during the call; overall, my experience is this is much less significant than it sounds; it should go without saying that you should never expect to get asked only questions that you prepared for
@@DanCroitor Thank you, sir!
What if a candidate fails on second application after an onsite interview. Would cooling period become longer?
depends on the role, and the team - maybe ask them
I am interviewing as an Instructional designer and want to practice answers. are there peer groups that can help?
Yes, checkout my website for the free role play service amazoninterview.coach/role-play.php
Jeez all these questions in purple are hard. Even with unlimited time I can't think of an answer.
Same. If they ask me those questions I am toasted.
Hopefully those questions in purple are not asked to junior level employees just out of college. I'm going in for a interview tonight and will update.
I went to a recruiting event for HR assistants. They held interviews for each of us and asked three questions. We were told that they would make their decisions the same night and we would know with in 5 business days.
Thanks for the valuable information. I have a question concerning the failure story. Should it be related to professional experiences, or is it in general? I would appreciate an answer from anyone that was actually asked the question during the interview or from yourself Dan. Thanks a lot
It must be related to professional experiences, except if you have just graduated, then you could use some cases from college. The important part is that you acknowledge *your* failure (never blame someone else or "share" it with a team), and you must have a lesson learned, even better if you had the opportunity to fix it.
Hi Dan, thanks for the information.
Do you have any resource page which contains information such as Amazons leadership principles, behavioural questions listed out, etc?
Thanks.
Hi there, my latest two videos have lists with many behavioral questions for SDE and PM roles, and help on how to answer them. Regards
@@DanCroitor Can you please provide me the link to the PM role behavioral questions and answers?
@@indutacc Could you find it?
Hello i am Non US citizen am i eligible for a position at Amazon?
Yes, Amazon has to do the immigration process if you're qualified for the open position.
I was expecting 10 mistakes to avoid during the Amazon interview, but you only delivered 5.
I’m a junior just out of college and have an interview online for mechatronics maintenance on Tuesday any pointers?
Hi Dan, how do I prepare for corporate role, technical part?
Hello pls I need your help, I had an interview via phone yesterday and after they conducted a test. But I missed one which means I only have one more chance today. I want to work as a full associate pls I need help especially the robotic
Behavioral questions are the most ridiculous thing in the world. They say nothing about you and mean nothing about how you are going to behave in the future.
I have interviewed there twice and failed both times. I guess that I am not a good fit to work there.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
keep trying places bro... and keep working on Mturk. theres some gold to be made there.
May I use my own phone?
Typical, everybody raise revenue by 500% 😂😂😂
when is Bezos going to pay taxes?
You didnt get my point, im not discussing personal or companies taxes (disclairmer: i support that everyone should pay a large fair amount of money, specially in the country where they generate revenue). This irony was against the fact of the STAR METHOD examples, where they always talk about big numbers, when, MOST of the people do NOT even have the chance to be on those deals. I give you another example: "I have improve the search engine of a famous mountain view company by 25% increasing the revenue in 3 trillio. dolars."That guy probably exist, called Jeff Dean, but is one in the life time
@@davidsanchezplaza couldn't agree more on this, perhaps they are out to find those super rare ones that indeed would contribute to a 500% raise in revenue
I didn't do any interview, I put in application, did drug test background check and that was that been with Amazon 2 years with no interview
Thats a lie cause Amazon does not do applications
You sound dumb, how TF else u get a job? Every job in the world does applications dumb ass
These interview tips are for Amazon HQ and tech positions, not warehouse jobs.
@@quinjuanmurray7528 You_ and Conspiracy Theorist _both_ sound dumb, the professional level require submitted resumes, the warehouse jobs only accept online applications.
@@ElleMitchell I sound dumb even though you just repeated what I said, btw I work there for 2 years
3:35
I didn't watch this video.
It watched me.
😆 Right.
You should really narrate the screens. It would mean I could just listen to you videos instead of watch them
I think I’ve interviewed for a job at Amazon at least 6 different times. All fails. Why do they even contact me??!
Hi Dan, thank you for sharing with us you expertise! I just sent you an e-mail with a request for some information about you services..
Open your own business. I have rejected Amazon and facebook interviews, I don't have time for their shit.
I spent years in college so it enables me to implement my ideas through entrepreneurship.
Big deal, plenty of people spend years in college and only learn how to be drones. Successful entrepreneurs have personal and leadership traist others don't. It has nothing to do with level of education or how long you stayed in school.
Where are the answers dan
Answer to what the purple questions? You need to have your own experiences that you can speak from, not Dan's personal answers.
AMAZON MUST FOCUS ON HUMAN NOT ON RULES AND A CODE LIKE A BIBLE
Too general information. Not really helpful. These infos you can find out a lot in internet. You don't have to repeat.
skip the first minute
Can you speak louder???
Are you kidding me? The entire process is based on you being a "BS Artist" nobody should have to study to "Pass" a interview.
Ahahah. Your comment shows that you have never gone through one of these interviews