Company Knowledge & Culture Topics
Topics covering understanding a company's business model, product portfolio, strategy, culture, values, leadership, and organizational dynamics for interview preparation and market research.
Motivation for Microsoft and This Role
Explains a candidate's motivation for applying to Microsoft and for the specific role, including alignment with Microsoft's mission and values, appreciation of the company's products and impact, and a plan for contributing to the team and role.
Amazon Leadership Principles
Demonstrate familiarity with Amazon leadership principles and how they apply to program and project decisions. Explain principles such as customer obsession, deliver results, think big, and dive deep, and practice mapping your behaviors and examples to those principles when describing trade offs, prioritization, and stakeholder influence.
Lyft Business & Services Familiarity
Familiarity with Lyft's business model, core products and services (ridesharing platform, mobility offerings, pricing strategy), partnerships, and market positioning as part of understanding the company's business and culture.
Questions About Netflix and Role
Guides candidates on preparing thoughtful, targeted questions to ask interviewers about the company, team, and role. Candidates should prepare technical questions about backend infrastructure such as microservices architecture, caching and content delivery strategies, incident response and on call practices, observability and deployment processes, as well as career questions about mentorship, growth paths, and how success is measured. Well chosen questions demonstrate curiosity, role fit, and that the candidate has researched Netflix and the specific team.
Motivation & Interest in Netflix
Exploration of what motivates a candidate to join Netflix, including alignment with Netflix's culture, values, product philosophy, and strategic direction, and how their background and goals fit with the company's mission and team dynamics.
Amazon Business and Technology Familiarity
Understanding of Amazon as a company and its technology footprint, including core business models, platform products, operational priorities, and how technology choices enable business outcomes. Candidates should be prepared to discuss Amazon Web Services as a platform, e commerce and marketplace dynamics, logistics and fulfillment technology, product and platform integration points, competitive position, and strategic trade offs relevant to Amazon's businesses.
Netflix Culture and Values
Covers the candidate ability to understand, adapt to, and thrive within Netflix style cultural principles that emphasize freedom paired with responsibility. Interviewers probe how a candidate operates with high autonomy given clear context, how they set guardrails and make decisions with minimal process, and how they accept accountability for outcomes. Candidates should be ready to describe concrete examples showing independent decision making, trade off judgement, how they established alignment when given latitude, how they solicited and integrated feedback, and how they handled mistakes or course corrections. The description also includes demonstrating candor, transparency about assumptions, and practices for scaling high performance while maintaining team norms and psychological safety.