The completion of a job at Amazon is notoriously competitive -with the Tech -Riese, which is known that he creates some bizarre curveball questions. But it doesn’t stumble on her answer to Jeff Bezos’ favorite question: “How happy are you?” That costs you the job.
Rohit Prasad, Amazon’s Head of AI, told exclusively Assets At the Vivatech conference in Paris that it is its attitude, the make-or break is.
“Be real,” he advised. “If you are not real, you won’t do well in an Amazon interview.”
“We take ours Leadership principles Very seriously, “he adds.” If you are looking for a job on Amazon, we will seek if you really model these behaviors. And the way to do this is essentially authentic. ”
And Prasad, says his own interview from 2013, to join the Tech giant as a director for machine learning, is a “main example” for it.
“I knew nothing about the leadership principles and was hired, which means that you have to have it in you that you really take care of making life better for our customers. You can provide results; you are a trustworthy person.”
“The majority of our interviews are very behavior -related, and of course we want them to be competent, but how they work in a team is important.”
And in contrast to a growing number of employers today, the cultural fit with sneaky is annoying Coffee cups tests And Psychological mind gamesPrasad says that he does not use unusual interview methods to recognize who is real.
“I think it is very easy to say whether they are authentic, whether they are really passionate about why they want this job or this role.”
The “happy” question of Jeff Bezos has always asked the respondents at Amazon
The setting has just as important at Amazon. A former Amazon Executive Investor Dan Rose recently on x unveiled That Jeff Bezos would ask the respondents whether they were a “happy person” in 1999 to test that.
“What a great way to filter optimists and people manifest success,” wrote Rose. Saring as a luck is a good representative of optimism. ”
Bezos has of course resigned from the company he founded. However, it is clear that the culture of attitudes for cultural adjustment has remained.
In addition to Prasad’s claims that authenticity is more of an interview -Green flag than an ingenuity, Amazon’s current CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, said that a “”awkwardThe success of the young worker depends on her attitude.
Now the company is right now break down About the use of AI in their interviews because it stands in the way of the evaluation of the “authentic” skills, experience and personality of the candidates.
