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An Amazon Bar Raiser breaks down the three common interview pitfalls: prepping only for technical rounds, parroting leadership-principle buzzwords, and leaning on a single impressive story. Each mistake masks a lack of consistent, real-world behavior that predicts on-the-job success.
- Candidates who ace technical rounds but can't answer behavioral questions get rejected, since most Amazon exits stem from behavioral issues rather than technical failures.
- Reciting Leadership Principle buzzwords doesn't work if the underlying story just describes routine assigned work rather than genuine initiative.
- Relying on one polished story as a crutch backfires because Amazon interviews probe multiple traits (ownership, inventiveness, customer obsession) that a single anecdote can't cover.
- Bar Raisers can veto any hire, even a referral from Jeff Bezos himself, if the candidate wouldn't outperform half the current employees at that level.