What Do Each Of Amazon's Leadership Principles Really Mean?
AWS News, Wednesday, August 23,2023
Liz Jones, an Amazon Bar Raiser, explains what our famous leadership principles mean and how important they are to landing a job at Amazon.
Amazon's Leadership Principles are a set of guidelines for how we think about behaviors within the business. There are 16 in total, and they are the framework of how we evaluate potential candidates for jobs here at Amazon.
As part of her role as an Amazon Bar Raiser, Liz Jones is a highly trained expert in the 16 Leadership Principles and is often involved in the interviewing process. The goal of the Bar Raiser program is to bring objectivity to interviews and, in an effort to fuel innovation at Amazon, help make sure every new hire has growth potential and brings skills and abilities that are better than 50% of their would-be peers in similar roles.