> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://junnie.gitbook.io/amazon-mock-interview/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://junnie.gitbook.io/amazon-mock-interview/2022/bq/35-behavioral-questions-asked-in-95-of-amazon-interviews-with-examples.md). # 35 behavioral questions asked in 95% of Amazon interviews with examples **Team / time management (positive & negative) ** 1\. Tell me about a time when you were not able to meet a time commitment. What prevented you from meeting it? What was the outcome and what did you learn from it? API test 2\. Describe a long-term project that you managed. How did you keep everything moving along in a timely manner? Migration service 3\. Give me an example of a time when you set a goal and were able to meet or achieve it Adaptation Message Queue 4\. Tell me about a time you had to quickly adjust your work priorities to meet changing demands. **Team / decision ** 5\. an example when you had to push back to HQ or challenged a decision 6\. Tell me about the toughest decision you've had to make in the past six months Message queue failed 7\. Tell me about a decision that you regret. **Team / leadership ** 8\. What did you do when you needed to motivate a group of individuals? 9\. Tell me about a time you stepped up into a leadership role **Team / communication & negotiation ** 10\. Do you collaborate well? 11\. Describe a situation when you negotiated with others in your organization to reach agreement. **Team / coworkers ** 12\. We've all had to work with people that don't like us. How do you deal with someone that doesn't like you? 13\. We all make mistakes we wish we could take back. Tell me about a time you wish you’d handled a situation differently with a colleague. 14\. The last time you had to apologize to someone **Team / conflict ** 15\. Give me an example of a time you faced a conflict while working on a team. How did you handle that? 16\. Tell me about a time when you received negative feedback from your manager. How did you respond? **Problem solving ** 17\. Tell me about a time when you missed an obvious solution to a problem 18\. A time when you faced a problem that had multiple possible solutions 19\. Tell me about a time when you came up with a new approach to a problem. 20\. Describe a time when you anticipated potential problems and developed preventive measures. 21\. Describe a situation in which you found a creative way to overcome an obstacle. Strategy / data 22\. How have you leveraged data to develop a strategy? 23\. a time when you were 75% through a project, & you had to pivot strategy 24\. Tell me about a time when you had to choose between technologies for a project 25\. Tell me about a time you had to deal with ambiguity Innovation 26\. What’s the most innovative new idea that you have implemented? Ownership principle 27\. Describe a time when you sacrificed short term goals for long term success 28\. Provide an example of when you personally demonstrate ownership. Strength / weakness 29\. What's your greatest strength 30\. Biggest weakness Clients I get nervous when I need to speak in front of a large group. In my second year, my Advisor asked me to do a presentation in the joint retreat of our department, and I did it quite bad., I got so nervous and could not understand the questions asked. I realized that this is a big problem for me, so I kept taking English courses provided where you need to present every class. Also, I am TAing many semesters, so the situation get much better. Now I am comfortable presenting for small team, but for large group of people. I am still not sure if I can do it confidently. 31\. We all deal with difficult customers from time to time. Tell me about a challenging client-facing situation and how you handled it. 32\. How do you show customer obsession? Failure 33\. Tell me about a time you recovered from a difficult situation 34\. Tell me about a time you failed and what you learned from it 35\. Why Amazon The reason that I am interested in Amazon and especially AWS is that I think people here are tool builders. At the beginning, I like Amazon because of kindle. I like reading hardcopy books when I was a undergraduate, but the books are causing trouble when I need to move, and then I found e-readers back in China. But those ones have all kinds of shortcomings, such as the high latency. Later I bought kindle and everything goes so smoothly. When I was working on my side projects, I used AWS EC2 and S3, and although I had quite few users, but I know I don’t need to worry even I got many users, because AWS will take care of the scalability for me. Also, I am a new graduate, I want to work hard and learn all kinds of things, and based on my reading, people are saying you can gain more skills in Amazon compared to other companies.