"At that point," he wrote, "each of us should look around and say, 'The standards are so high now - boy, I'm glad I got in when I did!'"īefore your interview, research the company's values and be prepared to talk about how you plan to exceed expectations and goals as the company grows.ģ. Interview tip for candidates: To fight entropy, Bezos always asked candidates how they visualize the company five years from now. (And it's true: Some of Amazon's most successful business areas, like Amazon Prime and Amazon Web Services, launched many years ago.) "Long-term thinking is a core value cemented in Amazon's history since our inception," according to Amazon's Day One blog. The problem is, it can be difficult for hiring managers to tell if a candidate, once hired, will remain engaged and eager to grow with the company for years to come. "The bar has to continuously go up," Bezos wrote in his letter. "Will this person raise the average level of effectiveness of the group they're entering?" I essentially want to know: Did they use diplomacy? What were their intentions? Can they be trusted? What does their thought process say about them as a person?Ģ. I do this by asking them to describe a time they've had to handle a difficult situation. Interview tip for candidates: I've interviewed hundreds of people throughout my career, and two admirable traits that I consistently look for are integrity and leadership. "If you think about the people you've admired in your life, they are probably people you've been able to learn from or take an example from," Bezos wrote in the letter, adding that he's always tried to work only with people he admires.
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