# Amazon Hiring Notes

Last reviewed: 2026-04-24

Primary sources:

- Amazon Jobs, Leadership Principles:
  https://www.amazon.jobs/content/our-workplace/leadership-principles
- Amazon Jobs, Interview loop: https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/interview-loop
- Amazon Jobs, FAQ Interview Prep: https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/faq/interview-prep
- Amazon Jobs, role-specific prep pages for PM, PM-T, Program Manager, SDM, TPM, data, and other
  roles.

## What to know

Amazon interviews are built around Leadership Principles, behavioral examples, role competencies,
and structured follow-up questions. Amazon describes the interview loop as individual conversations
with current employees who assess different aspects of skills and experience.

Role-specific loops may include phone screens, technical or functional screens, writing exercises,
multiple interview-loop conversations, and a hiring outcome timeline. Program and product roles may
include writing exercises. Technical manager and technical program roles may include system design.
Data and engineering roles may include technical exercises.

## Preparation guidance

- Build a story bank mapped to Leadership Principles.
- Use STAR: situation, task, action, result.
- Emphasize "I" actions, measurable outcomes, tradeoffs, customer impact, and what changed because
  of the candidate's work.
- Prepare failures, conflict, ambiguity, dive-deep, ownership, standards, and deliver-results
  stories.
- For technical roles, combine technical depth with customer, operational, and ownership stories.
- For product/program roles, prepare stakeholder management, metrics, tradeoff, writing, and
  execution stories.

## Agent coaching prompts

- "Which Amazon Leadership Principles are strongest in this candidate's evidence?"
- "Which stories need more metrics or clearer personal contribution?"
- "Does the candidate have a failure story that shows learning without sounding defensive?"
- "What writing exercise or system-design preparation is likely for this role family?"