Day 4 12: Interview with Amazon

The content comes from Xu Fei's column

The most striking feature of Amazon is its strong emphasis on leadership principles. The whole recruitment interview process is the epitome of Amazon's corporate culture.

A typical interview will have one or two rounds of telephone interviews, focusing on technology. Once passed, there will be five rounds of on-site interviews.

There is a special role in the five rounds of interviews, the lever hand, who is responsible for examining the candidates from the perspective of corporate culture and code of conduct during the recruitment process. If he/she agrees, he/she can decide the employment of the candidate, but if he/she doesn't agree, he/she will have a veto power. The remaining four rounds are interviewers in the recruitment department.

Bar Raiser embodies the selection of talents and abilities in Amazon's leadership principle, that is, leaders must constantly improve the standards of selection, recruitment and employee promotion. This is Bezos' philosophy, and new employees must be above the Amazon average. At the beginning, Bezos confessed himself. After the expansion of Amazon, there was no way to fully participate, so the role of pole lifter was born. They are all people who have worked in the company for a long time, have rich experience and understand the company culture.

In addition to technical questions, the interview will also ask questions about Amazon 14 leadership guidelines. Interviewers will test how many people handle things in different situations to determine whether they meet the leadership standards. In all post-interview discussions, leadership principle is the most important part, even more important than technology.

As a result, Amazon has a high employee turnover rate. 18 months later, it will exceed a large part of Amazon employees.