Amazon Interview: Behavioral Questions & Leadership Principles for Software Development (SDE) Roles
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 Published On Dec 13, 2018

The 18 behavioral questions:
1. When did you take a risk, make a mistake or fail? How did you respond?
2. Tell me about a time you failed. How did you deal with the situation?
3. Tell me about a time you had a conflict at work.
4. Tell me about a time when you took the lead on a difficult project
5. Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback from your manager. How did you respond?
6. How would you handle a project that is expected to be behind schedule
7. Describe a time when you received criticism and how you handled it
8. Tell me about a time you recovered from a difficult situation
9. Describe the most challenging project you've worked on so far
10. What is the most difficult decision you ever took in software
11. Tell me about a time you had to make a decision under pressure to meet a deadline
12. Tell me about a time when you had to choose between technologies for a project
13. Tell me about a time when you had to make a judgement call without having time to refer to a manager/supervisor
14. Give me an example where you strongly held an opinion and you were the outlier
15. What is the most significant impact of your work inside a team
16. What is the best invention or idea you had in the past two years?
17. Tell me about a time you exceeded your expectations
18. Describe a project that you are particularly proud of. How did it impact your company? What challenges did you encounter and how did you solve them?


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1. Tell me about a time when you were not able to meet a time commitment. What was the outcome and what did you learn from it?
2. Describe a long-term project that you managed. How did you keep everything moving along in a timely manner?
3. Give me an example of a time when you set a goal and were able to meet or achieve it
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4. Tell me about a time you had to quickly adjust your work priorities to meet changing demands.
Team / decision    • Answering Amazon Interview Question: ...  
5. an example when you had to push back to HQ or challenged a decision
6. Tell me about the toughest decision you've had to make in the past six months
7. Tell me about a decision that you regret.
Team / leadership    • Answering Amazon Interview Question: ...  
8. What did you do when you needed to motivate a group of individuals?
9. Tell me about a time you stepped up into a leadership role
Team / communication & negotiation    • Answering Amazon Interview Question: ...  
10. Do you collaborate well?
11. Describe a situation when you negotiated with others in your organization to reach agreement.
Team / coworkers    • Answering Amazon Interview Question: ...  
12. We've all had to work with people that don't like us. How do you deal with someone that doesn't like you?
13. We all make mistakes we wish we could take back. Tell me about a time you wish you’d handled a situation differently with a colleague.
14. The last time you had to apologize to someone
Team / conflict    • Amazon Interview: when you faced conf...  
15. Give me an example of a time you faced a conflict while working on a team. How did you handle that?
16. Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback from your manager. How did you respond?
Problem solving    • Answering 5 Amazon Interview Question...  
17. Tell me about a time when you missed an obvious solution to a problem
18. A time when you faced a problem that had multiple possible solutions
20. Describe a time when you anticipated potential problems and developed preventive measures.
21. Describe a situation in which you found a creative way to overcome an obstacle.
Strategy / data    • Answering Amazon behavioral interview...  
22. How have you leveraged data to develop a strategy?
23. a time when you were 75% through a project, & you had to pivot strategy
24. Tell me about a time when you had to choose between technologies for a project
25. Tell me about a time you had to deal with ambiguity
Innovation    • Answering Amazon Interview Question: ...  
26. What’s the most innovative new idea that you have implemented?
Ownership principle    • How To Answer Ownership Principle Que...  
27. Describe a time when you sacrificed short term goals for long term success
28. Provide an example of when you personally demonstrate ownership.
Strength / weakness    • Answering Amazon Interview Questions:...  
29. What's your greatest strength
30. Biggest weakness
Clients    • Amazon Interview Question: Tell me ab...  
31. Tell me about a challenging client-facing situation and how you handled it.
32. How do you show customer obsession?
Failure    • How to answer Amazon Interview Questi...  
33. Tell me about a time you recovered from a difficult situation
34. Tell me about a time you failed and what you learned from it
35. Why Amazon    • How to answer “Why Amazon”  

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