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Amazon is very focused on their Leadership Principles, especially re: their obsession w/ their customers. There are fourteen Leadership Principles, and you really need know at least four or five with specific examples of how/where/when you've applied that principle in your past job experiences. You will be asked to do this over and over as you go through the process.
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Executive Assistant, AWS

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Mar 3, 2016

Amazon is very focused on their Leadership Principles, especially re: their obsession w/ their customers. There are fourteen Leadership Principles, and you really need know at least four or five with specific examples of how/where/when you've applied that principle in your past job experiences. You will be asked to do this over and over as you go through the process.

Strictly situational questions based on their leadership principles. These questions are often very specific (the aim is to identify a leadership skill shown in a very specific context) and hence not easy to answer in a way that it ticks all of the boxes as expected by the interviewer
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Executive Assistant

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Oct 2, 2020

Strictly situational questions based on their leadership principles. These questions are often very specific (the aim is to identify a leadership skill shown in a very specific context) and hence not easy to answer in a way that it ticks all of the boxes as expected by the interviewer

Have you managed more than one C-Suite/VP? YES up to THREE. Do you have experience booking Domestic / Intl Travel + Expense reports? Yes over 6 Do you have 5+ years of executive support and/or project coordination experience, supporting multiple senior level executives? Over 6 Do you have experience working with office applications including Outlook, Google Drive, Google Slides, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Zoom? Over 6 years.
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Have you managed more than one C-Suite/VP? YES up to THREE. Do you have experience booking Domestic / Intl Travel + Expense reports? Yes over 6 Do you have 5+ years of executive support and/or project coordination experience, supporting multiple senior level executives? Over 6 Do you have experience working with office applications including Outlook, Google Drive, Google Slides, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Zoom? Over 6 years.

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