The Essential Course to Prepare for the Amazon Interview

Welcome to the Essential Course to Prepare for the Amazon Interview. Land a Job at Amazon.

Introduction of the Essential Course to Prepare for the Amazon Interview.

Agenda of the Essential Course to Prepare for the Amazon Interview.

Introduction of your instructor - Nick Dimitrov, a former Amazon Bar Raiser and Trainer of Amazon Bar Raisers.

Overview of Section 2: Amazon's Business. A description of how this section will help you prepare effectively for the Amazon interview process.

Amazon's mission and business strategy, and what they stand for.

The basic pillars of how to treat customers and Amazon's view of how certain customer experiences should be everlasting.

Who the four customer types are, as defined by Amazon.

This quiz will test the concepts covered in Section 2: Amazon's Business.

Overview of Section 3: Amazon's Culture. A description of how this section will help you prepare effectively for the Amazon interview process.

The Day 1 cultural principle at Amazon.

The 16 Amazon Leadership Principles are the foundation and essence of the Amazon culture.

The 16 Amazon Leadership Principles are the foundation and essence of the Amazon culture.

The essential building blocks and most important aspects of Amazon's corporate culture.

An in-depth review of Amazon's organizational hierarchy and corporate structure.

The preferred communication style at Amazon that will ensure Amazonians easily understand and evaluate your interview responses.

Amazonians rely on data as their eyes and ears when making business decisions.

This quiz will test concepts covered in Section 3: Amazon's Culture.

Overview of Section 4: Amazon's Interview Process and how this section builds towards helping you ace your Amazon job interview.

The Amazon Hiring Bar and the methodology Amazon uses to make hiring decisions.

The process a job candidate goes through when applying for a position at Amazon: from applying for an open position online to receiving a final job offer.

The requirement for candidates for senior-level positions to submit a written sample/writing exercise before their Amazon interview.

The Amazon interview loop and the events that take place on the day of your Amazon interviews.

How Amazon’s interviewers evaluate the performance of candidates during and after the job interview.

The Amazon interview debrief and how Amazon's interviewers decide whether to hire the interviewed candidate.

This quiz will test concepts covered in Section 4: Amazon's Interview Process.

Overview of Section 5: How to Prepare for the Interview. Build your portfolio with written responses and practice materials to ace the Amazon job interview.

Build a tactical plan for the Amazon interview and the Leadership Principles/behavioral portion of the interview loop.

List twenty professional accomplishments and five professional failures for the Amazon interview. Please, think of significant examples in either direction.

Describe your professional accomplishments and failures with the SOAR framework.

Answer the functional questions in the Amazon interview loop.

Prepare a list with scenario questions relevant to your function. Use resources like Chat GPT, Glassdoor.com, Quora.com, and others.

This quiz will test concepts covered in Section 5: How to Prepare for the Interview.

Overview of Section 6: Interview Do-s and Don't-s. Nine specific interview questions and scenarios, with practical recommendations of what to do and what not to do.

The steps you should take to prepare for your Amazon interview.

Prepare your written sample/writing exercise, as Amazon requires for senior-level jobs.

Convert one of your SOAR accomplishments from Assignment 2, into a complete Amazon written sample/writing exercise.

How to respond to Amazon's functional-competency questions in a clear and succinct fashion.

Choose one of your functional competency (scenario) questions from Assignment 3 and respond to it specifically and succinctly.

Avoid repeating the same answers when interviewers ask you different questions during the Amazon interview loop.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help, when needed, during the Amazon interview.

Don’t shy away from being specific (even if it means being occasionally wrong).

Be authentic, genuine, and humble during your Amazon interview loop.

Choose your biggest SOAR failure from Assignment 2 (or another significant professional failure of yours), describe it briefly, and explain how it has helped you grow and be successful later on in your career.

Show genuine passion and excitement about future Amazon career during the interview loop.

Describe why YOU want to be an Amazonian. Remember, that it’s OK to be vulnerable. Talk about things you personally love about Amazon. As always, be succinct and specific. Don’t answer in generalities that could also apply to other high-tech companies.

Ask bold, probing, and genuine questions during your Amazon interview loop.

Overview of the tactical Do and Don’t steps during the Amazon interview.

This quiz will test concepts covered in Section 6: Interview Do-s and Don’t-s.

Overview of Section 7: This is not the End. Review several additional resources with which you can further enhance the knowledge you've developed in this course.

Course wrap-up and contact information to stay in touch with the instructor.

Congratulations on completing The Essential Course to Prepare for the Amazon Interview. Please, stay in touch, and good luck in your Amazon interviews!

Bonus section of The Essential Course to Prepare for the Amazon Interview, in response to frequently asked questions we’ve heard from customers, and other feedback you’ve been sending us. We listen to what you tell us and we thank you for it.

Agenda for this bonus section of The Essential Course to Prepare for the Amazon Interview.

The vital importance of words and writing in Amazon's culture.

Tactical advice on how to get to the Amazon video/phone-screen stage.

Actionable tactics on how to generate a network of referrals to help you with getting to the video-screen interview stage.

Actionable tactics on how to get AWS certification to help with getting to the video screen interview stage.

How to direct the interviewers’ energy to improve the outcome of your Amazon interviews.

This quiz will test concepts covered in Section 8: Bonus Material.

A series of question-and-answer sessions that cover frequently asked questions from other job applicants like you, about how to prepare effectively for the Amazon interview.

A series of question-and-answer sessions that cover frequently asked questions from other job applicants like you, about how to prepare effectively for the Amazon interview.

We talked with Shobhit, who was recently hired as an AWS Sr. Product Manager Intern.

"Amazon interviewing is all about that they are your lawyers. That's how I thought about it. I thought that he or she is my lawyer and I have to give them as much evidence as I can and make it really easy for them to take notes because at the end of the day they have to create and take notes. And then go and present me in front of a committee."

We talked with Blandine, who was recently hired as a Content Acquisition Manager at Audible.

“I'd say don't give up and also just really be prepared. That's really the only way. What does it mean? Well, that really means work really hard because, essentially, the questions (at least, in my experience) were not hard.“

A series of question-and-answer sessions that cover frequently asked questions from other job applicants like you, about how to prepare effectively for the Amazon interview.

We talked with Shake, who was recently hired as a Sr. Business Development Manager at AWS .

“After having gone through interview loops several times and now having spent a few months, knowing the team: so much effort goes into the interview process, to make it useful. And that there is a ton of logic behind every decision being made.”

We talked with Pam, who recently interviewed for a Sr. Engagement Project Manager position with AWS.

“So, I arrived early, about 30 minutes early in fact, and checked into the front desk, and I thought I would use that that short time just to listen to some of my Leadership Scenarios that I had actually previously recorded so I can hear myself talking about them.”

A series of question-and-answer sessions that cover frequently asked questions from other job applicants like you, about how to prepare effectively for the Amazon interview.

We talked with Martin, who interviewed for a Sr. Financial Analyst position with Amazon and received an offer, only to turn Amazon down to start his own startup, and later interview with Amazon again for a different position of Sr. Business Analyst.

I discussed the 'Hire and Develop the Best' Amazon Leadership Principle with Tyler Wallis on his podcast 'Think Like Amazon'. I thought the conversation was useful and am republishing it here. Enjoy!

I discussed, with a former Amazon Recruiter, Bryant, how successful candidates prepare for and come across during the Amazon interview. Enjoy!

A series of question-and-answer sessions that cover frequently asked questions from other job applicants like you, about how to prepare effectively for the Amazon interview.