Amazon Interview
1. Sample questions
1.1. Tell me example when you get a touch feedbacks
1.2. Tell me example when to failed to meet commitment you promised
2. Topics
2.1. Bias for action
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Took swift action to resolve problem: qucikly assembled a reponse team, indentified root cause => implement temporary work-around to minimize downtime => communicate with customer to manage expectations.
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Taking immediate action led significant improvement (Note): discover a major quaility issue close in the launch date => decide halt the production line and relocate resources to address the issue immediately => correct the problem and meet quality standards.
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Priority tasks with multiple urgent issues: using matrix to categorize each issue based on potential consequences and required response time => address highest-priority items first while delegating or scheduling lower-priority taks later.
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Made decision with limited information: choose alternative vendor => And it work.
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Balance need of quick action and potential risks: Assesing as much relevant information as possible => consult with key skateholders and consider possible scenarios => migrate risks and ensure the actions taken both timely and well-considered.
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Act quickly to seize business opportunity: to find the feature above the competitors.
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Encourage team to take immedate action: live new features and outlining a clear rollback plan and benefits of user feedbacks.
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Quick decision still aligned with long-term goals: strategic objective and used them for decision-making => invole key stakeholders in decision process to gain different perspectives => balancing immediate action with strategic vision
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Delay led to negative consequences (Note): delay to address critical bugs => led to user complains and negative impact on customer satisfaction => took immediately to fix it and implementing a testing process => communicate transparency about the resolution to restore trust and improve our support processes.
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Manage pressure of quick decisions: Focus on the facts and prioritize clear communication => establish process + my experience to guide decision-making => make informed decisions while remaining effective.
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Taking action before all the answer is necessary
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Taking initiative and acting quickly: setting clear expectation and rewards for members who make decisive action => provide training on problem-solving and decision-making skills => create environment when quick, thoughful actions are valued.
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Quick decision that was initial unpopular: I made the quick decision to reallocate funds from one department to another to address an urgent need => analyze what decision would benefits in the long-term => affect departments.
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Evaluate potential impact of the decision when making decision: most critial factors and potential outcomes => consider short-term and long-term effects, relevant skateholders => to inform my decision.
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Turn quick decision into strategic advantage
2.2. Deliver result
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Deliver project successfully under a tight deadline (Note):
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Face significant obstacles but still achieve your goals:
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Ensure you meet or exceed your targets:
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Deliver results with limited resources:
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Handle when you do not meet your goals: research + action.
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Manage competing priorities to achieve results:
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Motivate your team to achieve challenging objectives:
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Measure success of project or initiative:
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Pivot your strategy to deliver results:
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Align with team or department to achieve common goals:
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Priority tasks when working in multiple projects (Note):
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Exceed the performance targets:
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Stay focused and maintain momentum when working towards long-term goals:
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Deliver results in high-pressure situation:
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Ensure quality when working aggressive deadlines:
2.3. Learn and be curious
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Seek out new knowledge to improve work performance: online course to learn data science and AI, apply new methods to our analytic processes.
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Curiousity to discover a problem that others overlook: Curiousity led me dive deeper into our support ticket data => find opporunities and patterns to improve the feature.
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Stay current with developments in industry: reading industry journals + attending webinars + participaing professional networks => follow thought leaders on social media and online forums to exchange ideas and insights.
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Learn outside comfort zone: Used a new project management tool => learn the software through tutorials and practice.
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Approach to learn topic or technology you unfamiliar with: break the topic into managable parts, used online courses, articles, specific learning goals and regularly practical application and discussions with colleagues.
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Curiousity to solve complex problem: Explore native supply chain models and technologies => reduced costs by 15%.
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Learn different department: understand marketing in product development => shadowed a colleague in the marketing department for a few weeks => the valuable insights about how marketing strategies are formulated and how they influence the product features.
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Encouter problem don’t know how to solve: Gather as much as information as possible to understand context => seek advice from colleagues and experts => research potential solutions to test them with real projects.
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Willing to learn new idea and innovation: learn about new automation tools => Have an idea to build a chatbot to handle common queries => significantly improving overall customer satisfaction.
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Encourage learning and curiosity in team: Host a sharing sessions between members of the team + learning sessions, workshops + encourage team members to pursure courses or certifications.
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Learn from failure and mistake: missed key deadlines due to lack of through learning and underestimate => reflect on experience + took a course in project management skills => apply to future projects, leading to more accurate planning and successful project completion.
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Learn with career goals: review and reflect my career goals => identify skills and knowledge gaps that could hinde my progress => seeking out learning opportunities => target approach ensure my learning contribute to my career goals.
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Discover new tool for team’s efficiency: new project management tool => research its benefits + introduced it to my team + led the training sessions => improved tasks visibility and enhance collaboration.
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Balance need to continuous learning with responsibility: Integrating learning into my daily routine => Allocate specific times for professional development (regular schedule) + apply new knowledge into my work.
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Help other learn and grow: many members were struggling with new software tool => training sessions and comprehensive guide to help them use to tool effectively.
2.4. Dive deep
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Investigate a complex issues:
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Attention to details:
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Gather and analyza data:
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Understand the process or system in detail to improve it (Hay):
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Solve a problem with limited information: focus on previous data => to propose a feature.
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Deep understanding of a subject to significant improvement or innovation:
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Show analysis and finding is accuracy and reliable:
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Dive deep customer feedback to address concern:
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Prioritize which areas to investigate when solving complex problem: most critical factors where issues most likely to occur.
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Challenge existing assumption:
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Not missing details when analyze data:
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Deep analysis the root cause:
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Keep update with latest trends and best practices:
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Used deep knowledge of the process to implement successful change:
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Communicate complex findings with non-tech skateholders:
2.5. Earn trust
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Build trust with new team and skateholder: priority each member’s strengths and chllenges => one-to-one meeting to listen their concerns and offered support where needed => transparent goals and consistently following thorugh on my commitments => buit trust and established environment.
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Build trust after a mistake (Note): Delay a project => Take immediately responsibility and communicated openly with team about the mistake => proposed a revised timeline and worked extra hour to correct the issue => rebuild trust and learned from experience.
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Transparent and honest when communicate with team: providing clear and regulate updates on project status => encourage open dialogue and make my self available for questions and feedback.
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Handle conflict and disagree to maintained trust (Note): resource allocation => faciliate a meeting where everyone could voice their concerns and proposed a compromise that address key issues and both sides => listen to maintain trust and help them reach mutually agreeable solution.
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Deliver feedback while maintaining trust (Note): feedback are constructive + offer actionable suggestion for improvement.
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Gain trust of a skeptical skateholder: understand their concerns + provide clear updates => meeting deadlines and address their feedback promptly.
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Demonstrate reliability and follow-through: communicate any potential issues + work to resolve them before impace the project => track record and being accountable => build + reinforce trust with my colleagues and skateholders.
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Honest and problem or limitation
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Build trust with member with different working styles or perspectives (Note): Open communication + collaboration => find common ground when possible => build mutual trust and respect.
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Handle situation where to make touch decision affect your team (Note): reduce team size due to budget cuts => offer support to affect team member work to redistribute responsibility fairly.
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Building trust with clients and customers: deliver on time and match with their expectations.
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Collborate with others to achieve a goal:
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Stay transparent and trustworthy even high-pressure
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Help other to build trust within a team: help them to understand the team dynamics => improve communication and collaboration => using contribution to show and build trust.
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Ensure actions align with values and priciples of business (Note)
2.6. Ownership
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Do the job outside the scopes: see the customer feedback loop was inefficient => colab with customer service team to gather more insights => reduce time to implement customer-driven changes 30%.
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Find improvement in team: code review prcess was slowing down the release of the feature => propose new scheduled pairing junior and senior ones => introduced automated tools to catch baisc errors before code reviews => led to 20% faster release cycle.
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Balance taking ownership and empowering team members: leading by example, made it clear that they had full responsibility for their tasks but I was always available for support => each team member contributing significantly to the outcome.
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Make decision long-term impact: whether invest new automation technology to warehouse => The initial cost was high, but I took ownership of decision for cost-benefit analysis, and potential ROI => After next year, operational efficientcy increased 40%.
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Take ownership of a mistake, handle and learn from it: approved a discount that led a loss on a major contract => take ownership, inform my manager, propose a solutuon => work closely with finance team to offset the loss of selling and cross-selling opportuinites => lesson to double-checking approvals and value of transparent communication.
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Ownership principles: take full reponsibility to outcomes of my work and thinking about long-term impact => See the customer retention rates were dropping => rather than waiting for instructions => identify the key pain points, developed strategy to improve customer engagement and follow-up questions => increase 15% over the next quarter.
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Motivated to take ownership, even the task are challenging and outside of comfort zone: focus on big picture and the impact of my work to company and its customers => take new challenge because of the company’s growth => commit to learn quicky, seeking advice from experts, focus on the end goal => grow professionally and contribule meaningfully.
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Take ownership that other avoids: disruption from key supplier failing to deliver materials on time => contact alternative supplier + negotiateed deliver terms + coordinated with logistic teams to minimize delay => avoid production downtime.
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Take ownership that limited resources: low cost => focus more on high-impact, low-cost strategy => engaging with influencers to creating compelling content to our target audience => exceed the sales target.
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Take ownership for process was not working efficiently: Ticket resolution time was longer than it should be => took ownership to analyzing workflow and identify bottlenecks => implement new system + weekly training sessions to improve team’s problem-solving skills => lead to 25% reduction in resolution time.
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Take ownership for project that failed: develop a feature that do not resonate for the users => gatering feedback, conduct though post-mortem analysis, present my finding to the team => learned to involving customers earlier in development process => validate ideas before investing heavily in them.
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Take ownership for project that require cross-functional collaboration: launching new internal tool that required input from multiple departments, including IT, HR, Finance => setting up cross-functional meeting + clear communicaiton + align everyone to project goals => launch the tool on time within budget.
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Take ownership for project that you disagree with the direction provided by your superiors: disagree with short-term approach for a critical project, because in long-term strategy would better serve our customers => Ownership by resarch and present data-drivent alternative + communicate findings to my supervisor + framing my feedback through overall success rather than personal preference => Took full ownership for its implementation, developed an action plan, coordinated with team to keep the project stayed on track => sustainable and successful outcome.
Notes: If you want to details, describe the name of the project in the first + output metrics in the ends.
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Take ownership for project that you are limited information: major marketing cmapaign without market research => gathering all information from relevant skateholders, including the sales and finance teams => weighted the potential risks and benefits => test key elements on smaller scale but fully commiting => launch successful and strong ROI => make complex decision and manage uncertain effectively.
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Take ownership for project that noticed a process inefficiency: onboarding process for new employees is time-comsuming => conduct analysis of the current project => proposed a streamlined onboading program and automating several administrative tasks => implement changes, colloborated with HR to update training materials + feedback loops to improve the process => The onboarding time reduced 40%, our new employees were granted more quickly.
3. Reflection
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Receive feedback from EM to design and implement onelink.
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Do not testing deploy service to production => cause restart service + dump 1 billions of log in production.
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Request SSH to log to query data and do analytic and process jobs.
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Hot fix incendent the downtime of CDN internal => cause fund loss, and redis is out of mem and read to DB in Tet holiday.
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Receive feedback from manager to build internal tools but very difficult to use for operation team.
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Build template boilerplate code including file script integrate with BOM + CI/CD services for other team members to reuse.
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Priority task for campaign of company to match with “Scan with Miss Universe” of company.
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Query number of authorize member of marketing content in website to reconcile with office.
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Consoliate 3 mini apps to 1 tool so that reduce cost and operation cost.
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Design custom dashboard for fraud detection onelink.
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Autofill mini app in config, download mini app config in tool, monitoring mini app trends.
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Write documents and guidelines support.
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DDoS + onelink can not load in platform.
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Dive deep in mobile code, trace log to find issues => deep dive.
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Explain for non-tech members.