Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Why amazon?
Tell me about a time you failed at work. What did you learn from it?
--Committed a short deadline to the client. Failed to deliver that. don't hurry
while committing deadlines and without knowing the depth.
Tell me about a challenge you faced. What was your role & the outcome?
-- POI hours conflation-- challenge is to design it in optimal way for huge data
sets
-- explore for optimal way and refer old programs
Tell me about a time you had to work or make a decision quickly / under a tight
deadline
-- self approving a PR
Customer obsession
Tell me about one of your projects where you put the customer first
--process anomaly scoring
Describe a time when a customer asked you for one thing, but you knew that they
needed something else
-- merging mupliple repos at once ---disagreed because it will give memory issues
Ownership
Tell me about a time you did something at work that wasn't your responsibility / in
your job description
--Automated mail
Tell me about a time when you went over and above your job responsibility in order
to help the company
--Automated mail
Tell me about a time when you had to make an important decision without approval
from your boss
-- approve my own PR on last day of deadline
Tell me about a time you had to make an urgent decision without data. What was the
impact and would you do anything differently?
Tell me about a time when you launched a feature with known risks
-- deployed feature data fix even though there is a risk of updating unnecessary
fields of a feature
Did you come across a scenario where the deadline given to you for a project was
earlier than expected? How did you deal with it and what was the result?
Dive deep
Tell me about a time when you used a lot of data in a short period of time
-- explore feature structures for feature data fix
Tell me about a project in which you had to deep dive into analysis\
-- hours confaltion and vendor ingest dashboard
Tell me about the most complex problem you have worked on
Deliver results
Tell me about the most challenging project you ever worked on
Tell me about a time when you had to handle pressure
-- take a small break and concentrate... take help from experienced colleagues to
solve the issue
Tell me about a time when you had two deadlines at the same time. How did you
manage the situation?
Think big
Tell me about your most significant accomplishment. Why was it significant?
-- automated mail.
Tell me about a time you proposed a non-intuitive solution to a problem and how you
identified that it required a different way of thinking
-- merging repos
Earn trust
Tell me a piece of difficult feedback you received and how you handled it
-- raising PR without comments
Frugality
Tell me about a time that you went above and beyond for an employee
Tell me about a time you saw an issue that would negatively impact your team. How
did you deal with it?
How do you manage a low performer in the team? How do you identify a good performer
in the team and help in their career growth?