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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