Leadership Principles
Also called Amazon LPs, LP interview
Amazon's published set of principles that its behavioral interviews are explicitly scored against.
Amazon publishes its Leadership Principles openly and uses them as the actual rubric for behavioral rounds. Each interviewer is typically assigned specific principles to probe, and writes up evidence against them.
This is unusual. Most companies interview against values they never publish, so candidates are guessing. Amazon tells you the rubric in advance.
What it means for you
Because the rubric is public, the bar is higher, not lower. Everyone in the loop has read the same list, so reciting principle names back is not differentiating and reads as coached.
What works is having stories that genuinely demonstrate a principle, and being able to answer the follow-up about the cost of that decision. Ownership stories with no tradeoff in them are the most common weak answer.
You do not need a story per principle. You need a handful of real ones you can steer, because the same project usually evidences several.
Where you will meet it
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Built from what Amazon publishes about its own process. No leaked question lists. The questions you get are generated against your own resume, so they are not from anyone else's interview.
Sources last checked . Hiring loops change, so this date is the honest limit on everything above.
Reading about it is not the same as saying it.
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