Interview Question Bank

2. What is your greatest strength?

6. What goal have you achieved and how have you accomplished it?

8. How do you prioritize your work?

14. Describe a time when you went above and beyond the call of duty

18. How do you ensure quality in your work?

23. How do you balance work and personal life?

42. What is your process for testing and reviewing your work for errors?

45. How do you manage confidentiality in your projects?

51. Tell me about your greatest work-related accomplishment.

56. Do you consider yourself a calculated risk-taker?

60. Can you discuss a time you had to be frugal in the workplace?

61. We seek to hire highly ambitious people. Where would you like your career with Amazon to take you?

63. What are your professional goals for the next five years?

66. Why should we hire you?

67. Amazon has 16 Leadership Principles. Name three of them and explain how you embody those principles.

70. We encourage innovation at Amazon. What does innovation mean to you?

82. Do you do any volunteering in your spare time?

83. What one word would your previous supervisor use to describe you?

86. Amazon is a company of pioneers. How are you a pioneer?

90. Can you talk to me about your GPA during undergraduate/graduate school?

92. How do you find harmony between your professional life and your personal life?

97. At Amazon, we seek to hire leaders. Tell me about a time you took the initiative to improve work-related procedures.

103. What distinguishes a great software engineer from an average one?

104. What personal software development projects have you worked on outside of work?

109. Can you estimate what portion of your day will involve coding and other activities you will perform when not coding?

131. Please walk us through your professional experience and career journey to date.

136. What are you aiming to achieve by taking on this role?

138. Please summarize your professional background.

151. What motivates you in your professional career?

152. Tell us about a recent job interview experience you've had.

159. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

161. Why did you resign from your previous employment?

175. What are three things you look forward to in your next opportunity?

177. Why do you want to work here?

178. I would rather be ethical than do things the easy way.

183. Share a project where you have worked independently

185. Why are you interested in this position?

191. About career plans and future goals

211. How was I motivated to apply for that job

223. What are your strengths and weaknesses at Googliness?

224. Why shouldn't we hire you?

239. What motivates you to excel in your work and how do you stay productive?

244. What strategies do you use to prioritize tasks and manage your time effectively?

246. Why Google, why software engineering

250. What is your favorite hobby?

252. Why do you want to do Product?

256. Are you organized or are you tidy?

257. Why did you select a business degree?

262. What attracted you to the role

270. How long would you look to work?