Episode 131
How to Prepare for Amazon Leadership Principle Questions (6 Steps) (Purdue MS Business Analytics Grad POV) - w/ Samridhi
Picture the 2024 job market from the inside. You finish a one-year master's, open LinkedIn, and every analytics role already has a wall of applicants ahead of you.
Who this is for
- You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
- You would rather hear Samridhi Vats's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Prepare for Amazon Leadership Principle Questions (6 Steps) (Purdue MS Business Analytics Grad POV) - w/ Samridhi
- you have done. That's step two of six. Here's the one people skip. Data points are very very important for leadership...
- you're explaining and and Amazon likes to pure data points and 2 years in the job itself has changed. Every one of us...
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Everybody tells you to apply to more jobs. She applied to fewer and walked into Amazon in the worst job market in a decade. decade. I made sure I do not touch them unless I had more than 50% similarity with the
had more than 50% similarity with the job description. Samridhi Vats Purdue business analytics batch of 2024 started as a business analyst at Amazon. now a business intelligence engineer
intelligence engineer and at this stage make sure you're not using any AI or any uh tool to refine what you're writing. Use it as your dumping ground to dunk everything that you have done.
you have done. That's step two of six. Here's the one people skip. Data points are very very important for leadership principle questions while you're explaining and and Amazon likes
you're explaining and and Amazon likes to pure data points and 2 years in the job itself has changed. Every one of us have our own personal agents to work upon and also team based agents. We all know, you
Show notes
Picture the 2024 job market from the inside. You finish a one-year master's, open LinkedIn, and every analytics role already has a wall of applicants ahead of you. (If you searched that year, you just felt your shoulders tense.) Samridhi Vats got through anyway. She went from a chemical engineering degree she did not pick, to two years of work in India, to the Purdue MS Business Analytics program, to Business Analyst II at Amazon.
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