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If you’ve had your initial job interview with a recruiter and have been waiting for a response, you might have been ghosted. The term “ghosting” refers to a situation where a recruiter stops communicating with job applicants (e.g., stops responding to emails or phone calls) without any explanation or heads up. It can occur at …
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The first half of November 2022 sent ripples across Big Tech. Of those Big Tech layoffs that are public and confirmed by the companies, Meta and Twitter offloaded 18,500 jobs, according to a Wall Street Journal article. Amazon is rumored to have laid off 10,000 employees. In addition, Snap, Lyft, and smaller Silicon Valley inhabitants …
From our experience as former hiring managers and Bar Raisers at Amazon, most candidates do not even begin Amazon salary negotiation. Instead, they take the first offer the recruiter gives them and get on with things. But later, most candidates regret not negotiating for a higher salary and total compensation. So in this article, we’re …
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All candidates seeking a corporate job at Amazon must pass behavioral interviews – a unique interview format that helps companies predict the candidate’s future performance from their experience. Cracking Amazon’s behavioral interview is impossible without mastering and using the STAR Method well in an Amazon context. This article will provide our in-house top tips on …
You can expect to face behavioral questions when interviewing for a position at Amazon. These questions are designed to get a sense of how you have behaved in certain situations in the past and conclude if your responses are raising the bar or not. The bar, in this case, is behaviors that your interviewers can …
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This guide will show you how to prepare for behavioural interview questions at Amazon. Our recommendations are based on our experience with thousands of candidate interviews and coaching sessions (both while we were at Amazon and after starting Day One Careers). At the end of this guide, we offer a vetted Amazon interview questions list, …
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Recently, I have had the pleasure of speaking with Akera, one of Day One Careers Alumni who has just accepted an offer with AWS in their Learning & Development team. There are two reasons why I found Akera’s story inspirational. First, she managed to break into Big Tech with a purely non-technical background. Second, with …
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If you stumbled upon this article, chances are that you are researching the STAR Method (which stands for Situation, Task, Actions, Results). Perhaps, you are preparing for an upcoming interview, and you know that the interviewers will be asking behavioural interview questions. Therefore, you know that the interviewers will be looking for you to answer …
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Unless you haven’t ventured out in the job market for a while, you’ve probably encountered behavioral interviews in some shape or form. And if you’re like most of our students, you probably noticed that behavioral interview questions do not follow the traditional format. Such structure makes behavioral interviews challenging to most candidates, especially those who …
