Amazon Leadership Principles Questions
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.
HardSystem Design
62 practiced
Design a privacy-aware A/B testing infrastructure for mobile apps that supports segmented rollouts, offline/latency-tolerant devices, and compliance with privacy laws. Describe experiment assignment, client- vs server-side bucketing, telemetry collection/storage, handling of offline users, rollback capability, and how to ensure experiments do not leak PII while enabling 'Think Big' experimentation.
EasyTechnical
62 practiced
Walk through a 'Dive Deep' investigation for an Android crash that reproduces on only a small subset of devices and OS versions. Describe the data sources you would consult (e.g., crash logs, ANR traces, device specs), how you would form and test hypotheses, and how you would prioritize and roll out fixes to minimize user impact.
HardSystem Design
69 practiced
Design an offline-first sync architecture for a mobile app that supports multi-device usage and conflict resolution. Explain data model choices, options for conflict-resolution (CRDTs vs OT vs LWW), synchronization protocol, storage strategy, bandwidth and battery optimizations, conflict-resolution UX, and testing strategy. Justify trade-offs with respect to customer experience and long-term maintainability.
EasyTechnical
72 practiced
Describe how you stay current with mobile platform changes (new iOS/Android releases, Flutter/React Native updates). Provide a recent example where learning a new framework or OS feature caused you to change an app's architecture or implementation, and explain how you evaluated risk and rolled the change out to the team.
MediumTechnical
78 practiced
A third-party analytics SDK in your mobile app starts causing crashes for some OS versions. Management asks to remove it immediately to stop crashes, but analytics teams warn of major telemetry loss. Using principles like 'Dive Deep', 'Bias for Action', and 'Ownership', outline a step-by-step approach to resolve this incident including mitigation, staged rollback options, telemetry preservation, and stakeholder communication.
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