A step-by-step guided workbook to prepare Amazon Leadership Principles based behavioral interviews. Looking for a job at Amazon and wondering how to prepare for the Amazon Leadership Principles (ALP) based interviews? This writing-friendly workbook takes you through a step-by-step process to help you identify, develop, and practice your work-experienced-based stories for competency-based interviews that may feel easy but are deceptively hard. Like many other highly desired companies, Amazon is an intensely competitive place to be selected. A unique aspect of Amazon is their interviewing process that heavily leans on asking deep questions about your work experience that maps to ALPs. Without adequate preparation, these interviews can be very challenging. Those who think competency interviews are about “telling stories about their experience” can come out of those interviews unpleasantly surprised. This workbook will not teach you about competency interviews or interview preparation. There are plenty of articles, books, and YouTube videos. Here, you will systematically work through your experience, find the right stories for the principles, write them in the format that helps in delivery, and practice them. There are no shortcuts to success, and in this book, what you get is based on what you put into it. The workbook also comes with a sample of 40+ questions. While this workbook is geared towards Amazon, the approach to preparation and the stories you build will help in any other competitive behavioral interviews, whether in Google, Microsoft, Apple, or anywhere else. Table of Contents HOW TO USE THIS BOOK 2 WHY THIS WORKBOOK 5 UNDERSTAND THE INTERVIEW BASICS 6 READ THE AMAZON LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLES (ALP) 9 BUILD STORIES THAT MATTER 12 RECAP YOUR EXPERIENCE 13 BREAK YOUR EXPERIENCE INTO DISTINCT STORIES 15 MAP YOUR STORIES TO ALP 25 DEVELOP YOUR EXPERIENCE STORIES 29 PRACTICE YOUR STORIES 53 LET’S DO SOME MEMORY EXERCISES 54 SAMPLE QUESTIONS 58 TIPS ON INTERVIEWING 62 FINAL THOUGHTS 63