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@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Amazon-Interview-Questio
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- Tell me a situation where you would have done something differently from what you actually did.
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- What is the most exceedingly bad misstep you at any point made?
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- Describe what Human Resource means to you.
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- How would you improve Amazon’s website?
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- How would you improve Amazon's website?
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## Dropbox
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- Give me an example of a time where you had a difference of opinion with a team member. How did you handle that?
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- Tell me about a challenge you faced recently in your role. How did you tackle it? What was the outcome?
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- Where do you want to be in five years?
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- Tell me about a time you needed information from someone who wasn’t responsive. What did you do?
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- Tell me about a time you needed information from someone who wasn't responsive. What did you do?
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## Lyft
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Cover Letter
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- A short introduction describing who you are and what you’re looking for.
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- A short introduction describing who you are and what you're looking for.
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- What projects have you enjoyed working on?
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- Which have you disliked? What motivates you?
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- Links to online profiles you use (GitHub, Twitter, etc).
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Here are some psychological tricks that will help you ace a job interview.
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- Tailor your answers to the interviewer’s age.
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- Tailor your answers to the interviewer's age.
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- Generation Y interviewers (between 20 and 30): Bring along visual samples of your work and highlight your ability to multitask.
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- Generation X interviewers (between 30 and 50): Emphasize your creativity and mention how work/life balance contributes to your success.
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- Baby Boomer interviewers (between 50 and 70): Show that you work hard and demonstrate respect for what they've achieved.
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- Hold your palms open or steeple your hands.
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- Find something in common with your interviewer.
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- Mirror the interviewer’s body language.
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- Mirror the interviewer's body language.
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- Compliment the interviewer and the organization without self-promoting.
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- Specifically, the students who ingratiated themselves praised the organization and indicated their enthusiasm for working there, and complimented the interviewer. They didn't play up the value of positive events they took credit for or take credit for positive events even if they weren’t solely responsible.
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- Specifically, the students who ingratiated themselves praised the organization and indicated their enthusiasm for working there, and complimented the interviewer. They didn't play up the value of positive events they took credit for or take credit for positive events even if they weren't solely responsible.
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- Show confidence and deference simultaneously.
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- In a job interview, that means showing deference to your interviewer, while also demonstrating self-confidence. One way to do that is to say something like, "I love your work on [whatever area]. It reminds me of my work on [whatever area]."
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- Emphasize how you took control of events in your previous jobs.
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- What does a typical day look like for you?
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- What do you think the company can improve at?
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- How would you see yourself growing at this company in the next few years?
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- What do you wish you were told about the company before you joined?
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- Was there a time where you messed up and how was it handled?
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- Why did you choose to come to this company?
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- When you were last interviewing, what were some of your other options, and what made you choose this company?
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- How would you describe your engineering culture?
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- How has your role changed since joining the company?
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- What is your stack? What is the rationale for/story behind this specific stack?
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- Do you tend to roll your own solutions more often or rely on third party tools? What’s the rationale in a specific case?
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- Do you tend to roll your own solutions more often or rely on third party tools? What's the rationale in a specific case?
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- How does the engineering team balance resources between feature requests and engineering maintenance?
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- What do you measure? What are your most important product metrics?
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- What does the company do to nurture and train its employees?
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- How often have you moved teams? What made you join the team you’re on right now? If you wanted to move teams, what would need to happen?
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- How often have you moved teams? What made you join the team you're on right now? If you wanted to move teams, what would need to happen?
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### Management
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- **What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current team? What is being done to improve upon the weaknesses?**
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- How did you become a manager?
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- How do your engineers know what to work on each day?
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- What is your team’s biggest challenge right now?
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- What is your team's biggest challenge right now?
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- How do you measure individual performance?
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- How often are 1:1s conducted?
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- How’s the current team composition like?
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- What is the current team composition like?
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### Leadership
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- [Questions I'm asking in interviews](http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interviews/)
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- [How to interview your interviewers](http://blog.alinelerner.com/how-to-interview-your-interviewers/)
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- [How to Break Into the Tech Industry—a Guide to Job Hunting and Tech Interviews](https://haseebq.com/how-to-break-into-tech-job-hunting-and-interviews/)
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- [A developer’s guide to interviewing](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-interview-as-a-developer-candidate-b666734f12dd)
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- [A developer's guide to interviewing](https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-interview-as-a-developer-candidate-b666734f12dd)
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