Answer Behavioral Questions for Amazon Leadership Principles Interview
Overview
This question evaluates behavioral leadership competencies such as customer focus, ownership, decision-making under uncertainty, stakeholder influence, and the ability to quantify impact within data science work (experiments, modeling, data quality, and platform outcomes).
Amazon
Aug 4, 2025, 10:55 AM
Data Scientist
Onsite
Behavioral & Leadership
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Amazon L5 Data/Analytics – Leadership Principles Behavioral Round
Prepare STAR stories that demonstrate scope, ambiguity handling, and measurable impact. Tailor to data science contexts (experiments, modeling, data quality, platform engineering, stakeholder influence).
Prompts
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Customer Obsession
- Tell me about a time when you didn't meet customer expectations.
- What happened and how did you deal with the situation?
- If you had another chance, what would you do differently?
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Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
- Describe a situation where you disagreed with a decision, yet committed and moved forward.
- What was the outcome?
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Bias for Action + Are Right, A Lot
- Give an example of when you had to act quickly with limited data.
- How did you ensure you were right, a lot?
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Ownership + Insist on the Highest Standards
- Tell me about a project where you owned the result end-to-end and insisted on high standards under pressure.
Hints
- Use STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) and add Learnings.
- Quantify impact (e.g., revenue, latency, precision/recall, p90/p99, defect rate, adoption).
- Make Amazon Leadership Principles explicit in your narrative.
- Reflect on trade-offs, risks, and what you’d do differently.
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