Went through an interview loop with Amazon. Despite sketchy stories I heard from friends and on blind, I actually enjoyed the process. Being someone bad at LC, I was able to solve all coding questions (2 medium and 1 hard) with guidance from the patient interviewers. Besides coding, LP questions make over half of each round. Nowadays, doing LC is almost an arms race. People spend way too much time on this activity, which I think of no use to the software engineer job. I hate LC and only did 150 or so. I spend most of my spare time reading tech books, part-time graduate school, pet websites, etc. This experience not only is good for passing LP questions but also benefit me on the job. I also think LP can possibly be used as a behavior standard. In places I have worked, there seems to be no right or wrong. It is all about making more political allies to achieve self interest. As long as most people support you, it does not matter if you steal someone's credit or throw someone under the bus. I would say political power is the real leadership principle in these places. Maybe at Amazon, you can use LP to regulate people's behavior if they obviously do wrongful (non-LP) things to exploit others? Or is it the same kind of political game at Amazon? Thoughts? #amazon
Amazon values LP a lot and is used in day to day work. So it makes sense to get the data for it.
Somehow LP are good and make sense as you start working.
Microsoft has company values too, but nobody follows them. Manager says it is naive to have a set mindset on company value as every team and situation is different. It's very hard for me.
Amazon's LP are amazing in theory. In practice however they're used as sticks by SDMs to beat their reports into submission.
Totally depends upon managers. I have seen bad and good ones.
Learnt my lesson its super important to find great manager.
LPs are amazing and it's astonishing that those are sincerely followed by the company. That keeps Amazon growing 25% yoy
What level did you interview for? The higher the level, the more important LP becomes.
L6
Yep, at L6, your LPs answers would weigh more heavily than your coding. If they don't sense strong cross-team/org impact in your LP answers, you'll get downleveled to L5. Are you expecting an offer?
LP Makes sense from a birds eye perspective. You join amazon and see that they’re mostly used by managers and senior ppl to promote their own agendas and they twist the LPs to whatever fits their opinion...you start to think LPs were the biggest BS ever.
I enjoyed the process when I was interviewing, and thought LPS were good before joining. Seeing them used in reality makes me DESPISE Them. I’ve seen so many managers make subordinates do pointless things just because of “dive deep”, or put on pointless meetings to understand “frugality”
That's sad. Unfair for true followers of LP.
Wtf is LP?
Leadership principles, asked in Amazon interviews
Tell me about the time when you were Curious and wanted to Learn, by Deep Diving the logs to debug an issue, but your Obsession with Customers required you to be Bias for Action, and so you had to take Ownership of another task and worked hard to Deliver Results that Customer was looking for, during which you also Insisted on the Highest Standards and asked manager for more time to complete the unit tests, but you had to Disagree and Commit and went straight to production by Inventing and Simplifying the deployment config to bypass gamma stage, thus causing high sev2 for months and had to quickly Hired and Develop the Best people (that Frugality would allow) to work on the on-calls, all the while still manage to show that you were Thinking Big and Earn the Trust of your manager despite causing so much workload for the rest of the team. Looking back do you think you were Right A Lot?
this is gold. And probably the best manifestation of LPs at amazon lolol
This is so fun. LPs do seem to be conflicting themselves.
IMO only a couple LP are actually good/useful Customer Obsession Bias For Action Ownership The rest are too vague/broad to be useful
These 3 makes me think about oncall XD
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Amazon LPs are solid and they offer a good philosophy to follow. It is also interesting to think about how they work together (or conflict). It is how they can be used which is the negative. If you enjoyed the interview process, Amazon may be a good fit for you.
It's just easier for me to follow some set principles than having to constantly adapt to different political landscape.