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    This document provides guidance on how to answer interview questions related to Amazon's "Deliver Results" leadership principle. It explains that delivering results is the most important principle, as succeeding in your work demonstrates leadership, even if you don't follow the other 13 principles perfectly. The document gives examples of interview questions about delivering results and provides sample answers highlighting specific successes and how goals were exceeded. Overall, it advises focusing answers on stories that illustrate taking responsibility, overcoming challenges, and driving outcomes that surpass expectations.

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    The key takeaways are that delivering results is the most important principle at Amazon and you need to use examples and stories to show how you achieved success and drove results.

    The "Deliver Results" principle means succeeding in your work and rising to meet challenges despite obstacles. The other principles are important but delivering results is the ultimate goal.

    You show you've delivered results by providing concrete examples and stories using the PAR (Problem, Action, Result) format to describe tasks you undertook and how they led to successful outcomes.

    How to answer Amazon "Deliver Results"

    interview questions
     Published on August 1, 2019

    Jennifer Scupi

    Interview Coach
    49 articles

    The fourteenth Amazon Leadership Principle is “Deliver Results.” If you’re preparing for an
    interview at Amazon, you should ask yourself what the company means by delivering results and
    how this principle relates to the role you’re applying for.

    If you don’t know about the Amazon leadership principles, consider first reading this article
    about interviewing at Amazon.

    The “Deliver Results” principle


    Leaders focus on the key inputs for their business and deliver them with the right quality and in
    a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, they rise to the occasion and never settle.

    What does the “Deliver Results” leadership principle mean?


    This is the fourteenth and last Amazon leadership principle, and in many ways, it’s the most
    important.

    Delivering results is the one thing you absolutely must do if you work at Amazon. The other
    thirteen principles are important, but they’re merely building blocks to this final one. In other
    words, if you ignore your customers but still get the results, then you’ve succeeded, even if
    you’ve disregarded the first principle. Common sense says that paying attention to your
    customers is important, but if you can figure out a way to succeed without paying attention to
    customers, then you’re doing the right thing.
    In the words of the principle itself, if you “rise to the occasion” – meaning succeed in what you
    were doing – you’ve shown yourself to be a leader.

     You may be asking yourself, “What is the point of the other principles if you don’t actually have
    to follow them?” I can understand your confusion because you’ve been studying the other
    thirteen principles, and now I’m telling you that they’re not crucial. It’s not that the other
    principles aren’t important, because they definitely are. It’s just that you need to think of them as
    the building blocks, and look at “Deliver Results” as the final product. The first thirteen are
    intended to be the steps you need to take to get results.

    How to Answer Interview Questions Related to the “Deliver


    Results” Leadership Principle
    So how do you actually show in your answers that you’ve delivered results? You need to tell
    stories about successes.

    You can use a phrase like this to show your investment in delivering results:

    “I was able to have a lot of responsibility and decision-making ability for X project, and by
    doing Y tasks, I delivered results in Z number of launches.”

    In this phrase you talk about the tasks you did in order to create a particular result. This will fit
    easily into your PAR format answer – the situation or problem is the project you were working
    on and the action step is the tasks you did in order to create successful results.

    Interview Questions Related to the “Deliver Results”


    Principle
    If your interviewer asks about this leadership principle, she or he might ask one of the following
    questions:

     Describe a situation where you had to face a particularly challenging situation while
    working on a project and what you did to overcome it. (Note: The challenge could be
    with respect to timeline, scope, people, or a combination thereof.)
     How you check your progress against your goals?
     Do you set and communicate smart team goals, expectations, and priorities; help
    employees stay focused/help others remove barriers/roadblocks towards meeting team
    goals?
     Tell me about a time when you were able to persevere through setbacks and overcome
    obstacles to deliver outstanding results.
     Tell me about a time where you not only met the goal but considerably exceeded
    expectations. How were you able to do it?
     What’s the most complex problem you’ve ever worked on?
     Have you ever worked on something really hard and then failed?
    Sample Answers for “Deliver Results” Interview Questions
    Question: Tell me about a time you not only met your goals, but exceeded expectations.

    Answer given by a Senior Technical Account Manager

    “There was one time when I was working as a consultant for USAF. On one of the daily standup
    calls, the client (USAF Project manager) mentioned that most of his other applications do smart
    card authentication. He wanted to add that feature to the Oracle Application I was working on.

    So, even though this wasn’t a formal request from him I ran with it. I started a conversation with
    Oracle on understanding the products we could leverage to get job done. I set up meetings with
    their product teams, got to know the product, discussed our requirements, and decided that we
    could come up with a solution. I implemented that solution in our development environment. I
    had the proof of concept done before the next sprint started in four weeks.

    I just about knocked the project manager’s socks off when I showed him that POC! The feature
    wasn’t technically part of the project plan, and he had no idea I would try to add it. He was
    really pleased.”

    I like this story because the account manager says a lot about himself in a succinct and relatable
    way. He answers the question exactly and shows he goes above and beyond when he “Drives
    Results.” It comes natural to him, and he takes pride in it. (And yes, he got the job!)

    Question: Describe a situation where you had to face a particularly challenging situation
    while working on a project and what you did to overcome it.

    Answer given by an Agile Coach

    “Our company recently migrated from SDLC to Agile. It was a difficult transition due to the
    mindset of my peers. They were used to delivering projects in a waterfall methodology for such a
    long time it was difficult for them to completely accept Agile principles.

    I had already delivered a large project with Agile using Jira as the tool while working very
    closely with our business partners and analysts. I could see my manager was struggling with
    bringing everyone completely on board. So I took the initiative of learning Rally and setting up
    all my peers with workspace in Rally. I also created a guide with instructions on using various
    functionality in Rally for them to set up their teams and how to get started with Agile
    ceremonies. My manager was appreciative of my efforts.

    Not every organization/team was going to go Agile at the same time, so we had a large
    integration project this year where the team was still waterfall whereas ours was Agile. This
    project was an ideal candidate to form a vertical stack Agile team and collaborate throughout
    the year to deliver. I was able to present a case to senior management of their organization to
    form a cross-organizational Agile team. Today we have a cross functional and cross org Agile
    team that has a set cadence.”
    This story is about one of the most challenging parts of any business – culture change. When
    choosing your own stories, try to think of challenging situations that the interviewer may have
    experience him or herself. To “Drive Results,” the Agile Coach took control of the situation by
    learning new tools and methodologies, and then introduced those concepts to his immediate
    team. He then used what he learned to drive change in other parts of the organization.

    For more articles about interviewing at Amazon, go to the Amazon page on my blog.

    I offer several interview coaching packages, one of them tailored specifically to Amazon
    candidates. If you’re looking for an Amazon interview coach, email me at
    jennifer@interviewgenie.com to schedule a free 15 minute consultation or an interview coaching
    session. I’m also happy to create a custom package that fits your needs.

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