Honesty - Amazon leadership principles
For those that have interviewed for Amazon, how honest were you in your responses to questions related to leadership principles? TC 180k
I interview for Amazon and I expect the candidates to exaggerate. Nobody really cares about the behaviorals unless there’s a red flag in relation to the LP being evaluated. It’s the coding part that carries 90% of the weight.
Then why is only 1/3 of the time spent in coding and systems design? I got a headache from all the LP talk after my last amazon loop.
Some loops have only LP’s, but if there is a technical portion, the expectation is to spend 45 minutes on that. Your interviewer was shit.
I have interviewed a lot of people and caught a lot of fakes, just keep probing on details of what happened, who said what, and no one can make up a lie on their feet like that.
Don't lie or emblish or fake it. It would hurt you down the line when you actually have to do the work and deal with the people and issues
Au contraire, if you’re sociopathic enough to convincingly lie on LP interviews and shrewd enough to do that, you’ll be superb career leader climbing machine.
Oh I'm sure. My boss just hired someone at a Sr level well above the average TC with all the benefits because this guy lied sooooooo well. I actually had a temp agency recruiter call me & laugh on the phone saying that they rejected him because he didn't know 💩 & we all know temp agencies never reject anyone
I interviewed recently, every interview was 40-60% LP They dug into my answers pretty deeply - I don’t think I embellished them and even then I was struggling to come up with good responses to some of the questions
OP, what situation do you have that you feel you have to lie on LP questions?
In this video, Biden starts out "I learned a lot.", but there is no need to go full Corn 🌽 Pop on an LP. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/15/joe_biden_recalls_terrifying_1960s_public_pool_confrontation_with_razor-weilding_gangster_named_corn_pop.html
Impressive use of the STAR method, though. Set the situation, described his tasks and the actions he took. Clearly described the results. He was careful to use "I" and not "we."
I would also like to understand how narrating a few experiences translates to a candidate being a good cultural fit. For example, if a candidate does not have a good example for a particular LP, the interviewers assume that the person is devoid of a certain principle? That's just plain stupid.
You should be able to frame your stories to cover multiple leadership principles at once. Most of them are common sense type things. Which are you struggling to come up with?
Ok here goes: when you had conflict with coworker when you didn't do right thing when you took ownership when you failed when you cut corners