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Amazon Interview Questions – Business Insider.

It’s a safe bet that the email sent to me prompting to apply for the Amazon job is as usual airheads trying to gauge their intellectual levels against mine.

Okay so I’m asking questions, but really I suspect it’s more about social skills than just answering the questions of the interview.

I suppose you have to fit inside neat little square boxes and match up to the labeling. What like most companies don’t do is tell you they want an out of the box rocket scientist to get them in front of the pack and on Mars first since that’s the ultimate short term goal.

First fit the mold, then impress us. No wonder companies struggle and lose races.

Case in Point – RIM

Great company, but then the square box – label thing I guess didn’t line up anymore. Whichever way you were looking at it. Into or Out of the box.

Social skills now are all over the map and span generations, as reference points they count less than getting a person to make the company profitable and keep it that way in terms of a leadership role. Yes customers are important, but a customer that returns is one that was impressed with a solution when the standard line that it’s always the computer’s fault.

Hey I remember all the billing issues with Bell Canada and Sympatico. Is that standard still running on empty or has the tune changed and when ?

iStar did great, until it tanked and was bought out by PSI. No one else wanted to touch it with a 10 foot pole. Yet it was Canada’s premier internet pioneer before everyone else. Where are leaders like Nortel when they bite the dust and people holding worthless paper with ZERO VALUE.

People make companies great or sink them. Psychology tests don’t do diddly squat in telling the whole story. I sense that they’re only used as a chemical sniff detector prior to a physical one in person. Neither do references for that matter. Ooooops, forgot – degrees are not as important as before and leave you in stressful piles of debt and crisis management modes.

Time to rethink learning, teaching, employment and how companies not only do business and stay in business but how the next generation of kids fit into those plans.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST – Notice how all of the above matter not ONE IOTA when jobs are shipped overseas and third party contractors do the hiring. Companies turn a blind eye to the standards they set for themselves and instead think they’ve got it in the bag having someone else qualified to do it for them. Well, guess some smart alexes need more 101 MBA refresher courses. Or is that HR. Who knows, someone isn’t thinking with those neat little square corners that are suppose to fit inside those square boxes of theirs.