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So we're going to talk about how you deal with the question about your weaknesses.
If it comes up in an Amazon interview.
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So how has the handle, the weakness question?
Wow.
Oscar's someone about that weaknesses.
Isn't a standard Amazon interview question.
It doesn't exist in the Amazon interview question bank, and it's not
really part of the training that an ad as an interview, it goes through
how however it is really very, very common in interviews in general.
And of course, lots of Amazonians come to Amazon from other companies.
They found that type of questioning.
In prior roles, I may just carry it over into the Amazon interview.
So although it's not a standard down as an interview question, there is a
good chance that you'll get asked it.
Okay.
So then if you are set, how are you going to deal with it?
My first and biggest tip is that you try and use the leadership principles
as a mechanism for your answer, because obviously your interview is going to.
Assessed based on the Amazon leadership principles.
So if in your response to the question about weaknesses, you can land it in
Amazon leadership principles, right?
If it comes really, really easy to use that as evidence, when it comes
to making a decision as to whether POS you onto the next round, or
ultimately if it's the final round to hire you, then you don't have to.
To the quote, the specific Amazon leadership principle.
Sometimes that can be a bit clunky, but you definitely want to be thinking
about the key behaviors that are demonstrated by that leadership
principle and using the language of those behaviors in your answer.
So that's the first thing to think of.
The second thing to think about.
If you all asked about weakness in your Amazon interview is the fact
that many of the Amazon leadership principles all tension with each other.
And that's why quite often people read the Amazon leadership principles.
And they're a little bit confused because they're thinking, well,
this one says this and that one says that so they don't match.
And how does that make sense?
It's purposeful.
It's it's true because there are obviously always tension in business decisions.
You've got to make trade-offs that's I guess, true of life as well.
So when you are giving your answer to that mistake question in your Amazon interview,
think about those leadership principles that are at tension with each other.
So let's think about maybe insist on the highest standards.
It's definitely a tension with bias fraction.
And now the two that are at tension with each other are
dive deep and deliver results.
So when you're talking about your weakness, what you should also do is talk
about your strength because of course, if you're weak in one area, chances are
that's because you're strong in another.
So let's think about the scenario specifically.
So I'm going to hold my hands up and say, I am really strong in
insist on the highest standards.
I am a complete perfectionist, but what that can mean is taking action.
Having that bias for action.
It's it's a challenge for me because I always wanted to be more perfect.
I never feel that it's quite ready to do.
And therefore I would be saying in my interview that because of
my very strong bias towards high standards and really, really wanting
everything to be perfect, the result is sometimes I find myself unable to.
Action because I still think I can make it more perfect.
And I'm not necessarily inclined to just get it live.
So having done that, not only am I talking about a weakness, but I
am very specifically in clearly.
Donald saying with where I am strong.
That's great.
So what I've done and also to what could be a possibly negative question,
I focused it on my strengths and then made it very clear how that strength
sometimes leads to a weakness.
But that's not the best fit.
Let me tell you about the best bit of answering this weakness question.
What you then absolutely need to do is talk about what you are doing
to address your weakness, showing that you are being very proactive.
Okay.
Self-reflective and putting tools in place to manage this behavior.
So if we go back to that scenario of me and what I do to try and manage my
tension between and system, the highest standards and bias for action is I would
say it's my interview was how I do it.
I draw a line in the sand between what I feel is going to be great
outcome, great product, but where the line of perfection is starting to
become disproportionately beneficial.
So I will either put a date in my diary whereby which I feel I must get
it done and have it in live action, whatever it is, or I write a list.
The features or the task or whatever it might be.
And I draw the line where I think I'm getting into microscopic
features and tasks that will not proportionately deliver the benefit
that the additional time will cost me.
And then I religiously challenged myself to adhere to that
time, that line in the sand.
And then when I finished my project, I always look back at myself and double
check that I have held a standard to myself and adhere to that person.
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