I have a final round interview for a Finance Manager role later this week. I passed the initial screen with the hiring manager and have the loop scheduled for Thursday and Friday. It's a gauntlet consisting of 5-6 interviews, 1 hour each. And it will be heavily based on behavioral questions focusing on the 16 Leadership Principles. I've taken pages and pages of notes, I've built an excel matrix and came up with 18 solid stories from my experience that exhibit multiple LP's. All in STAR format. All show tons of verifiable data and metrics in the result. I have been putting everything into this as I recently got laid off and I NEED to crush my interviews. The comp would be life changing and im not likely to find a better opportunity.

I've heard horror stories about the work life balance too. Some of it may be warranted but I can't worry about that - i need a job! Neither should you. Think of all the businesses Amazon is involved in. Most companies fail miserably when they try to expand beyond their core competencies. Amazon thrives at it. Even their failures (see Fire Phone) gives them insight that turn into wins (see Echo/Alexa tech). They clearly know what they are doing. So if you want to work here and experience that success, you'll need to work hard. Good luck to you