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Explore Amazon and AWS’s 16 Leadership Principles through sample interview questions and criteria for reviewing your answers. Connect the principles to your own experience and prepare to explain your actions and results in concrete terms.
What this resource covers
This guide clearly explains Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles (OLP), an essential part of preparing for its interviews.
It summarizes what each principle means and how it is explored in interviews, with practical tips for describing your experience in terms of the behaviours Amazon looks for.
Who this resource is for
- People considering joining Amazon or moving there from another employer.
- People who want a quick overview of Amazon’s Leadership Principles.
- People looking for ideas for examples from their experience to discuss in interviews.
Contents
- Overview of the 16 Leadership Principles
- Purpose and keywords of each principle
- Sample interview questions
- What strengthens an answer and what may weaken it
- Using metrics and numbers to explain results
How to use this resource
- Select the Leadership Principles that relate to the responsibilities of your target role and your own experience.
- Use the sample questions to organize the situation, challenge, your actions and results.
- Use the review criteria to identify where you need to explain your reasoning or results more fully, then practise your response.
Preview
Sample Customer Obsession questions
- Sample Customer Obsession questions
- Tell us about a time when customer dissatisfaction led you to improve a service. Which metrics did you use to assess the impact?
- Continued
- Have you identified and resolved hidden customer pain points?
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