Amazon Interview Guides
Everything we know about how Amazon actually interviews: the questions by role, how the loop and the Bar Raiser round work, and what changes when you interview in India, the UK, or Europe. All free, no signup required.
The essentials
Amazon interview questions
48 real-style behavioral questions grouped by all 16 Leadership Principles.
Read the guideLeadership Principles questions
Every LP with the questions it triggers and what interviewers listen for.
Read the guideAmazon interview preparation
A step-by-step prep plan from four weeks out to interview day.
Read the guideThe full question bank
Every question type indexed in one place: all 16 LPs, by role, and by interview stage.
Read the guideStart here
Behavioral interview questions
What every behavioral question is really testing, and how to build answers that survive follow-ups.
Read the guideAWS Leadership Principles
AWS interviews run on the same 16 LPs as Amazon retail. What's different for cloud and technical candidates, and what isn't.
Read the guideQuestions to ask your interviewer
What to ask at the end of each interview, organized by who's across the table, and the questions to avoid.
Read the guideBy Leadership Principle
Deliver Results
The questions that test whether you hit the bar on scope, quality, and timing, and how to answer with real numbers.
Read the guideBias for Action
Questions that test calculated speed, and how to show you moved fast because a decision was reversible.
Read the guideInsist on the Highest Standards
Questions about refusing to ship substandard work, and how to tell that story without sounding like a perfectionist.
Read the guideLearn and Be Curious
Questions about self-driven learning, and why listing courses or certifications is the weakest possible answer.
Read the guideDive Deep
Questions that test whether you actually know the details of your own story, and why follow-ups are the real test here.
Read the guideInvent and Simplify
Questions about finding simple solutions to problems everyone else thought were complicated.
Read the guideEarn Trust
Questions about candor and respect, and why owning a mistake plainly scores better than defending it.
Read the guideHire and Develop the Best
Questions about raising the talent bar, and why this principle applies even if you've never had a direct report.
Read the guideCustomer Obsession
Questions that test whether you actually start from the customer, and how to prove it with more than a claim.
Read the guideOwnership
Questions about acting like an owner, not a renter, and staying with a problem past the point where you could hand it off.
Read the guideHave Backbone; Disagree and Commit
Questions about challenging decisions respectfully, then committing fully once a call is made, even against your view.
Read the guideAre Right, A Lot
Questions about judgment and decision-making process, and why a lucky outcome isn't the same as being right.
Read the guideThink Big
Questions about bold direction, and why a vision with no shipped first step reads as fantasy, not leadership.
Read the guideFrugality
Questions about doing more with less, and why the story is about resourcefulness, not suffering nobly.
Read the guideStrive to Be Earth's Best Employer
Questions about making work better, safer, or fairer for the people around you, one of the newer and less-drilled principles.
Read the guideSuccess and Scale Bring Broad Responsibility
Questions about weighing impact beyond your own team's metrics, the newest and least-asked of the 16 principles.
Read the guideBy role
SDE interview questions
The behavioral bar for software engineers at SDE 1 through SDE 3, and how it scales with level.
Read the guideArea Manager interview questions
What operations leadership candidates get asked, from safety scenarios to people management stories.
Read the guideProgram Manager interview questions
How PM and TPM candidates get scored on influence without authority, delivery, and stakeholder stories.
Read the guideEconomist interview questions
How the technical and Leadership Principle rounds work for Amazon's Economist and Applied Economist roles.
Read the guideBy interview stage
By region
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