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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A Day One Careers Community member has recently received multiple L7 offers from Amazon (he went through a split-loop, received an “inclined” result, and will need to decide which team to join). However, he was kind and generous to offer his Amazon interview tips to anyone preparing for their Amazon interviews and learning how to …
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Before I tell the story, I’ll be vocally self-critical to the best of Amazon’s senses. I’ve written this survival guide based on my experience, which I triangulated with colleagues who started with the business simultaneously. There is a good chance you will have to find your way to adjust and thrive in Amazon’s peculiar culture. …
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If you join Amazon, you will quickly realise that everyone around you is a serial problem solver. This is by design. Besides being an organisation of over-achievers, Amazon has a profoundly ingrained engineering ethos that lives in tech and non-tech organisations. Therefore, you won’t be surprised that problem-solving is a recurring theme throughout the interview …
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This is the second part of a two-part article where we share strategies to survive your first six months at Amazon. Follow this link to read Part I. 6. Become a doc ninja We can see your future at Amazon, and it is full of doc writing. Amazon speaks in narratives and avoids presentations (we …
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