Introduction
I like to spend time to study more about Amazon as a company, and also leader in the industry. Here is the article I read and I will write down some notes first.
Showing posts with label Amazon leadership principle study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon leadership principle study. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
What is Jeff Bezos like as a manager? – Tech in Asia
August 14, 2018
I like to spend time to study more about Amazon as a company, and also leader in the industry. Here is the article I read and I will write down some notes first.
I like to spend time to study more about Amazon as a company, and also leader in the industry. Here is the article I read and I will write down some notes first.
Saturday, May 26, 2018
Are Right, A Lot
May 26, 2018
Introduction
It is time for me to do some study on leadership one by one. It is not easy to come out the principle, but it is also very hard for me to look up those principles without a few good references.
The principle is called Are Right, A Lot. The explanation is "Leaders are right a lot. They have strong judgment and good instincts. They seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their beliefs."
Leadership study
Are right, A lot.
Let me brainstorm the leadership on May 25, 2018.
Leaders are right a lot. This statement makes sense or not? Leader are right a lot. A lot means bigger than 50% probability, 70% is a lot?
Judgement and good instincts. Question is how to define judgement as strong, how to define instincts are good.
It is hard to mainain the strong judgement. Since bible says that do not judge otherwise you will be judged.
Good instinct? Sometimes we have to practice a lot, meet a lot of people through mock interview, and then I can quickly learn how to make good judgement. Sometimes it is easy to tell that the peer is nervous, or trying to hide lack of practice, sometime the peer tries to get hint without asking.
diverse perspectives? Give an example about diverse perspective,
Work to disconfirm their beliefs.
I have to work on some way to help me get motivated and keep getting help from various resources. I need a few platforms for me to play and get recognition for the hard work, knowledge about computer science, and good working spirit and easy to collaborate.
I need to brand myself. I need to work on daily and try to put together things.
Relate to my work experience
I have to work on some way to help me get motivated and keep getting help from various resources. I need a few platforms for me to play and get recognition for the hard work, knowledge about computer science, and good working spirit and easy to collaborate.
I need to brand myself. I need to work on daily and try to put together things.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Ownership principle study
May 22, 2018
It is my task to write a short blog about Ownership principle. Here are the detail about the ownership, leaders are owners. They think long term and don't sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say "that's not my job".
Here are the words in the above statement:
Leaders, owners,
long-term value vs short-term result
entire company vs their own team
That is not my job
I like to study the leadership one a time.
If I like to apply the principle to my current job, what is the case?
Long-term value vs short-term result
Long-term value - I try to rewrite the website to make sure the code is readable, remove smell of code, write simple code, break giant function or object into small objects. Apply object-oriented design.
I plan to study those courses on frontendmasters.com about web security, and I learn how to use Google web browser developer tools.
Short-term result - visual things to do, visual evidence I do the work. Something surface level.
This is not my job - Have I said that sentence before?
I like to come out a few stories related to ownership.
S - Situation - Virus issue on my computer, ransom attack
T - Task - I need to figure out better way to do source control
A - Action - last August I started to purchase github service annual subscription. I did some research on source control available products, and then I chose to subscribe the github.
R - Result - The source control is advanced to much better status compared to before.
Web server and database migration
S - Situation - false positive, the anti-virus software deleted database file
T - Solve the issue - restore the database
A - Restore the website
Study the virus and anti-virus, and ask questions about false positive issue
Need more work here ...
R - Result
I need to balance my time on different issues, front end, use interaction, website architecture, SQL server administration, and all related issues.
A list of things happened:
SQL injection attack
Virus software removed the database file
Database server and web server migration
Work with consultation company to upgrade the database server, IIS server
IIS 8.0 learning
C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jquery coding
Vacation break challenge
Work with sales, marketing and graphic design
Move source control to github after ransom attack, server upgrade etc. in 2017.
Sales analysis or any analysis, how to handle dispute? The program I write and design I have to make change after 2015, if there is any dispute, I should be able to set down the dispute in less than 5 minutes.
Introduction
It is my task to write a short blog about Ownership principle. Here are the detail about the ownership, leaders are owners. They think long term and don't sacrifice long-term value for short-term results. They act on behalf of the entire company, beyond just their own team. They never say "that's not my job".
Here are the words in the above statement:
Leaders, owners,
long-term value vs short-term result
entire company vs their own team
That is not my job
Study note
I like to study the leadership one a time.
If I like to apply the principle to my current job, what is the case?
Long-term value vs short-term result
Long-term value - I try to rewrite the website to make sure the code is readable, remove smell of code, write simple code, break giant function or object into small objects. Apply object-oriented design.
I plan to study those courses on frontendmasters.com about web security, and I learn how to use Google web browser developer tools.
Short-term result - visual things to do, visual evidence I do the work. Something surface level.
This is not my job - Have I said that sentence before?
S.T.A.R story
I like to come out a few stories related to ownership.
Source control
S - Situation - Virus issue on my computer, ransom attack
T - Task - I need to figure out better way to do source control
A - Action - last August I started to purchase github service annual subscription. I did some research on source control available products, and then I chose to subscribe the github.
R - Result - The source control is advanced to much better status compared to before.
Web server and database migration
Anti virus software incident
S - Situation - false positive, the anti-virus software deleted database file
T - Solve the issue - restore the database
A - Restore the website
Study the virus and anti-virus, and ask questions about false positive issue
Need more work here ...
R - Result
Website onwership
I need to balance my time on different issues, front end, use interaction, website architecture, SQL server administration, and all related issues.
A list of things happened:
SQL injection attack
Virus software removed the database file
Database server and web server migration
Work with consultation company to upgrade the database server, IIS server
IIS 8.0 learning
C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Jquery coding
Vacation break challenge
Work with sales, marketing and graphic design
Move source control to github after ransom attack, server upgrade etc. in 2017.
Business analysis ownership
Sales analysis or any analysis, how to handle dispute? The program I write and design I have to make change after 2015, if there is any dispute, I should be able to set down the dispute in less than 5 minutes.
Monday, April 23, 2018
David Anderson: A well-written article about Amazon leadership
April 23, 2018
It is 12:20 AM, 20 minutes past 12:00 AM. I could not stop reading the article written by David Anderson. I like the article since I like to be a better engineer. I like the great thinking and reasoning in the article.
Here is the article link.
Introduction
It is 12:20 AM, 20 minutes past 12:00 AM. I could not stop reading the article written by David Anderson. I like the article since I like to be a better engineer. I like the great thinking and reasoning in the article.
Reading time
Here is the article link.
Monday, May 30, 2016
Amazon Leadership principle study
May 27, 2016
Julia likes to do small and quick research about Amazon leadership principle.
Here is the public link about Amazon leadership principles:
https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Videos she watched and she understands the basic things - things can be controllable, long term sustainable - customer central culture, not on competitor etc.. Do not feel good when stock go up 10%, feel 10% smarter; vice versa.
1. Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (1 hour video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx92bUw7WX8
1. Amazon headquarter campus is in downtown vs. remote area - environment concern.
2. Senior manager stress level - More control, and should be less stress.
3. AWS - tremendous transaction of distributed computing, resource etc.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56uxnKbvbJ4
1.big selection 2. fast and quick delivery, 3 price - customer concerns, repeated customers.
offer wider selection, lower prices and fast, reliable delivery.
Intense hard working, high IQ; can hire great people.
3. Building Amazon One Box at a Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAhTtBlb2Q
4. BBC documentary: Amazon - Lead principles study:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLAlziEzAE
5. Jeff Bezo's Top 10 Rules For Success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAdjNuE6EZQ
6. Read the article:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0423/ceo-compensation-12-amazon-technology-jeff-bezos-gets-it.html
1. In 2006, Amazon Web Services as a standalone business. AWS story - processing 150,000 picture in 2 hours, cloud service, in-house takes 15 days, cost 200 dollars.
2. TV ads about customer of Kindle reader gets hurt, Jeff asked to replace the funny video. Care about customers.
3. Two pizzas feeds a team, team is too big.
4. Even the tiniest delay in loading a Web page isn'’t trivial. Amazon has metrics showing that a 0.1 second delay in page rendering can translate into a 1% drop in customer activity.
To attend two days of call-center training each year. The payoff: humility and empathy for the customer.
7. 2001 Interview "How Did Jeff Bezos Start Amazon? His Background, the Internet & the Future of E-Commerce (2001)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og8B45GV-ls
Stock market is a voting machine in short term, in long term it is a weighing machine.
More reading - Chinese articles: (June 1, 2016)
http://www.weixinyidu.com/n_1766932
http://www.knowledger.info/2015/08/27/starbucks-vs-amazon-a-tale-of-two-cultures/
8. Stanford university artificial intelligent graduate certificate
http://scpd.stanford.edu/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=1226717
9. Amazon student program
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201552950
June 12, 2016
10. UTC 2012 Hall of Fame - Jeff Bezos Keynote
Amazon is looking for people thinking out-of-box, creative, be able to invent something.
June 19, 2016
2005 Entrepreneurship Conference - Taking on the Challenge. Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhnDvvNS8zQ
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ace-leadership-interview-prakash-krishnan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like
August 30, 2016
Microsoft research - Amazon 14 leadership principles
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/the-amazon-way-14-leadership-principles-behind-the-worlds-most-disruptive-company/
Take notes on Sept. 5, 2016 10:17pm
1. AWS - how to get there?
Separate application team from infrastructure team, force infrastructure team to make external customer's happy, high-reliability product
2. Future release - concept?
Nov. 1, 2016
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2016/10/former-amazon-bar-raiser-offers-insight-into.html
Nov. 5, 2016 How to Get a Job on Amazon’s Alexa Team
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-cheatsheets/amazon.html
Nov. 22, 2016
Look into the blog - Find out about Amazon device team
Amazon lab 126 - 1 stands for a, 26 stands for z - 126 stands for A-Z
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/amazon-devices-team-us?base_query=&loc_query=&job_count=10&result_limit=10&sort=relevant&team_category%5B%5D=amazon-devices-team-us&cache
Dec. 14, 2016
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-cheatsheets/amazon.html
Take some notes:
The Method
Second Round:
Presentation: we evaluate their communication skills, their thought process, and their depth of knowledge in the specific area of machine learning
The score:
We evaluate the candidate's possession of the technical and functional knowledge and skills for the role and demonstration of our leadership principles throughout each phase of the process.
How to Ace it
Do speak up. "Be a loud thinker. Discuss your thought process". Also, have "a clear communication style."
Do ask questions about the job, and show that you're "interested in our efforts and [have] new ideas on how to improve them."
Do be obsessed with the customer. "We would like to see candidates that put a considerable amount of weight on the customer experience when making decisions."
Don't be vague. For example, "to avoid ambiguity the candidate can reply: I used SVM to build a classifier given 100K data points," instead of "I used some technique to build a classifier with the given data point."
Don't be stubborn. You don't want to demonstrate "an inability to think flexibly and open-mindedly" or be "missing hints from the interviewer and insisting on a particular approach."
January 2 2017
Talk about interview by Amazon VP
June 25, 2017
Amazon leadership interview - blog is here.
Julia likes to do small and quick research about Amazon leadership principle.
Here is the public link about Amazon leadership principles:
https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Videos she watched and she understands the basic things - things can be controllable, long term sustainable - customer central culture, not on competitor etc.. Do not feel good when stock go up 10%, feel 10% smarter; vice versa.
1. Interview: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (1 hour video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx92bUw7WX8
1. Amazon headquarter campus is in downtown vs. remote area - environment concern.
2. Senior manager stress level - More control, and should be less stress.
3. AWS - tremendous transaction of distributed computing, resource etc.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56uxnKbvbJ4
1.big selection 2. fast and quick delivery, 3 price - customer concerns, repeated customers.
offer wider selection, lower prices and fast, reliable delivery.
Intense hard working, high IQ; can hire great people.
3. Building Amazon One Box at a Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAhTtBlb2Q
4. BBC documentary: Amazon - Lead principles study:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXLAlziEzAE
5. Jeff Bezo's Top 10 Rules For Success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAdjNuE6EZQ
6. Read the article:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2012/0423/ceo-compensation-12-amazon-technology-jeff-bezos-gets-it.html
1. In 2006, Amazon Web Services as a standalone business. AWS story - processing 150,000 picture in 2 hours, cloud service, in-house takes 15 days, cost 200 dollars.
2. TV ads about customer of Kindle reader gets hurt, Jeff asked to replace the funny video. Care about customers.
3. Two pizzas feeds a team, team is too big.
4. Even the tiniest delay in loading a Web page isn'’t trivial. Amazon has metrics showing that a 0.1 second delay in page rendering can translate into a 1% drop in customer activity.
The respect for that ethic explains why Amazon screens its job candidates for a strong bias to action and an ability to work through ambiguity. Both help identify people who can innovate fast and do right by the customer. One popular interviewing tack: asking candidates to create an action plan as brand managers in an area where they lack any direct knowledge— and then being told they have no budget.
Stumped candidates will find their path into Amazon slipping away. Those who cobble together guerrilla answers—informal polls through free online tools such as SurveyMonkey—tend to thrive at Amazon. They are the same people who might have challenged Bezos in math class and also succeeded on Grandpa’s ranch.To attend two days of call-center training each year. The payoff: humility and empathy for the customer.
7. 2001 Interview "How Did Jeff Bezos Start Amazon? His Background, the Internet & the Future of E-Commerce (2001)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og8B45GV-ls
Stock market is a voting machine in short term, in long term it is a weighing machine.
More reading - Chinese articles: (June 1, 2016)
http://www.weixinyidu.com/n_1766932
http://www.knowledger.info/2015/08/27/starbucks-vs-amazon-a-tale-of-two-cultures/
8. Stanford university artificial intelligent graduate certificate
http://scpd.stanford.edu/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=1226717
9. Amazon student program
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201552950
June 12, 2016
10. UTC 2012 Hall of Fame - Jeff Bezos Keynote
Amazon is looking for people thinking out-of-box, creative, be able to invent something.
June 19, 2016
2005 Entrepreneurship Conference - Taking on the Challenge. Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhnDvvNS8zQ
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ace-leadership-interview-prakash-krishnan?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like
August 30, 2016
Microsoft research - Amazon 14 leadership principles
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/the-amazon-way-14-leadership-principles-behind-the-worlds-most-disruptive-company/
Take notes on Sept. 5, 2016 10:17pm
1. AWS - how to get there?
Separate application team from infrastructure team, force infrastructure team to make external customer's happy, high-reliability product
2. Future release - concept?
Nov. 1, 2016
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2016/10/former-amazon-bar-raiser-offers-insight-into.html
Nov. 5, 2016 How to Get a Job on Amazon’s Alexa Team
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-cheatsheets/amazon.html
Nov. 22, 2016
Look into the blog - Find out about Amazon device team
Amazon lab 126 - 1 stands for a, 26 stands for z - 126 stands for A-Z
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/teams/amazon-devices-team-us?base_query=&loc_query=&job_count=10&result_limit=10&sort=relevant&team_category%5B%5D=amazon-devices-team-us&cache
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-cheatsheets/amazon.html
Take some notes:
The Method
Second Round:
Presentation: we evaluate their communication skills, their thought process, and their depth of knowledge in the specific area of machine learning
The score:
We evaluate the candidate's possession of the technical and functional knowledge and skills for the role and demonstration of our leadership principles throughout each phase of the process.
How to Ace it
Do speak up. "Be a loud thinker. Discuss your thought process". Also, have "a clear communication style."
Do ask questions about the job, and show that you're "interested in our efforts and [have] new ideas on how to improve them."
Do be obsessed with the customer. "We would like to see candidates that put a considerable amount of weight on the customer experience when making decisions."
Don't be vague. For example, "to avoid ambiguity the candidate can reply: I used SVM to build a classifier given 100K data points," instead of "I used some technique to build a classifier with the given data point."
Don't be stubborn. You don't want to demonstrate "an inability to think flexibly and open-mindedly" or be "missing hints from the interviewer and insisting on a particular approach."
January 2 2017
Talk about interview by Amazon VP
June 25, 2017
Amazon leadership interview - blog is here.
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