Amazon Corporate Counsel interview questions

Initial forty five minute interview with in-house recruiter, subsequent interview with hiring manager for one hour. Requires review of Amazon leadership principles and answering questions in STAR format. Also required written answers to questionnaire and writing prompt.

As well-known, Amazon used the STAR method. They asked me questions starting with "tell me about a time when..." I went through the phone screen and had 5 interviewers during the second stage (i.e., loop interview). I learned that 2 voices count more because they have veto power: the hiring manager and the "bar-raiser." The bar raised is someone from a different team, within the same area of expertise (e.g., legal). Each of the interview was 45 minutes. - 10 min of intro and regular interview questions (e.g., why are you interested in Amazon, tell me about your background). - 25 min of STAR questions, and in some cases, hypotheticals. - 10 min about questions I had for the interviewer. Each interviewer had 1 to 2 leadership principles ("LP") - no overlap on the principles in my case. However, the questions for a given LP were generally similar, which the interviewers recognized. The interview preparation emphasizes not to repeat a story, but I was told that it could be ok to do IF I acknowledged it and explained why I repeated the same story during another interview. I ended up not having to repeat a story. I had prepared 3 stories per LP. I ended up going through 26 stories during my loop interview. Keep track of those as you go through the interview! I wrote down key words during the interview and kept an ongoing list to which I added new stories I could no longer used after each interview was over.