Guess the Leadership Principle

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As you prepare your stories for your interviews, here are some qualities you will want to ensure that you are demonstrating with your answer. Each bullet should be read as "Do you..."

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Amazon created their set of Leadership Principles to help them govern their business better. These Leadership Principles are tightly woven into the ethose of Amazon. All feedback is delievered using the Leadership Principles as buckets. They use them everyday as they discuss new products, services, projects, problem solving.

Yes, absolutely. Instead of trying to create an entirely new set of principles and then trying to sell you why they are great we have adopted the Amazon Leadership Principles because they provably work. When preparing for an interview if you prepare you stories to align with the Leadership Principles you will be very well prepared? Why? Because it doesn't matter what behavioral interview question you are asked, it can be mapped to at least one Leadership Principle. Many companies use behavioral interviews as part of their process. Learning how to correctly identify the Leadership Principle will allow you to focus on your story content and not trying to script answers for every possible question you might get asked.

More than anything we want to help people land their dream job. The overwhelming feedback we have received from candidates is how much trouble they have mapping interview questions to Leadership Principles. Over several decades of building teams we had created a pretty significant interview question bank. We have continued to add to it since the inception of InterviewAt and will continue to add to it.

One of the largest complaints of job seekers is that when they don't get the job they are not given any actionable feedback from the hiring company. They aren't told how they underperformed or what they could have done better. We have been conducting mock interviews at InterviewAt to give candidates the feedback they need. The company is run by a former senior executive with experience at Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, start ups and helps private equity firms hire for their C-level bench. Visit our site to see what resources we have to help you prepare for your interviews.