Amazon Behavioral Interview Questions | Leadership Principles Explained

in this video we're going to cover how to answer amazon's behavioral interview questions my name is kevin way i'm a product manager and i'm here to help you nail your upcoming amazon interview be sure to like subscribe and hit that notification bell for new tech interview prep videos every single week [Music] so you got an interview at amazon and you're learning that behavioral questions are a big deal at the company but what are behavioral interview questions and why is amazon so obsessed with something called leadership principles today we'll talk about how to nail amazon's behavioral interview questions the most common mistakes that candidates make and three tips that'll help you give the best answer when it comes to hiring amazon puts an enormous emphasis on questions that help show if a candidate will fit in with the company culture to do this they ask behavioral interview questions behavioral interview questions focus on your past behavior and performance and companies like to ask these because they reveal quite a bit of who you are and help predict your job performance at least in theory interviewers asking these questions are looking to deduce your skill set how you may perform as an employee and how well you might fit in with the amazon workplace culture in amazon's case they're also looking for evidence of what they call leadership principles and we'll explain what these are shortly some examples of behavioral questions include tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision or tell me about a time when you came up with a simple solution to a complex problem the most common mistakes candidates make when answering these behavioral questions is not answering them in a structured organized manner this is a problem because the stories you're about to tell probably come from some project you worked on over the span of a few weeks or months and as a result if you're not answering them in a structured manner then this could lead to you rambling not setting the right context for your interviewer or not being able to give the right answer that