Company Knowledge & Culture Topics
Topics covering understanding a company's business model, product portfolio, strategy, culture, values, leadership, and organizational dynamics for interview preparation and market research.
Amazon Culture and Values
Familiarity with Amazon's mission, working style, and cultural expectations. Includes understanding core leadership principles, the emphasis on customer obsession and long term thinking, expectations around frugality and operational rigor, and how to frame examples and decisions to demonstrate alignment with Amazon values.
Amazon Leadership Principles
Demonstrate familiarity with Amazon leadership principles and how they apply to program and project decisions. Explain principles such as customer obsession, deliver results, think big, and dive deep, and practice mapping your behaviors and examples to those principles when describing trade offs, prioritization, and stakeholder influence.
Spotify Motivation & Role Fit
Discussion of motivation for joining Spotify, how the candidate's background and skills align with the role, and demonstrated understanding of Spotify's culture, values, and product strategy to illustrate fit.
Spotify Business and Creator Ecosystem
Domain knowledge of Spotify as a platform and the creator ecosystem that supports it. Areas include subscription and advertising monetization models licensing and royalty flows the roles of artists labels distributors and publishers creator facing products and analytics tools how engagement metrics such as streams listener retention and playlisting translate into platform value emerging creator monetization channels podcast economics and distribution partnerships. Candidates should be able to reason about trade offs between creator economics and platform growth suggest partnership or product ideas for creators and explain how creator success maps to company level metrics.