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 …
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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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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If you are preparing for your behavioral interviews with Amazon, you will need to be comfortable answering Amazon interview questions about professional failures. While the fact that Amazon is keen to know about your professional misfortunes can seem odd, there are a few good reasons why these questions frequently pop up in interviews. And suppose …
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The Internet is full of information detailing Amazon’s rigorous interview process. We see no need to repeat what is already there. Instead, we will add value by sharing a Hiring Manager’s perspective with this article. Once you hit that “Apply” button, it will give you an inside view of what starts happening during the Amazon …
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