Any advice for first round interview for Sr Program Manager role at Amazon??

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Act as though Bezos is a god and learn their guiding principles

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Create a story for key leadership principals
Deep dive, bias for action, deliver results, invent and simply, etc.

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Yeah. Run away.

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Why is that?

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I have multiple friends in this role at Amazon on several different teams around the world. They're all miserable. I have been on the phone so many times with people in the last year crying and thinking of quitting without any job lined up.

One of them just got told he's not doing a satisfactory job working 90 hrs a week so he's being forced to leave and being replaced with a team of 8 people after being denied a team of 2 that he was promised for a year but never materialized.

Your salary will be good but you will be joining a cult where you will be worked to the bone and nothing you do will scratch satisfactory performance. You will get a new manager every couple months and will rarely enjoy a weekend or evening again because you will be working and recieving email requests at 10pm that need to be fulfilled that night.

They all started off liking their jobs, but it lasted about a month or two and then turned miserable.

I have known a couple people at Amazon who worked there long-term and liked it, but they are maybe 2 or 3 people out of about 30 or so that I know, and they are all at AWS or other Amazon research labs that are more independent from the Amazon culture.

Other aws folks in this forum present a very different picture thoiu!!

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