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.
Microsoft Business, Products & Culture
Understanding Microsoft’s business model, product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive landscape, and corporate culture, including values, leadership style, and workplace practices; aimed at interview preparation and company-specific analysis.
Amazon Culture and Values
Familiarity with Amazon's mission, working style, and cultural expectations. Includes understanding core leadership principles, the emphasis on customer obsession and long term thinking, expectations around frugality and operational rigor, and how to frame examples and decisions to demonstrate alignment with Amazon values.
Google Culture and Engineering Environment
Covers familiarity with Google s mission, values and engineering environment. Topics include demonstrating alignment with principles such as user focus, bias toward action, rapid iteration, innovation and learning, awareness of product scale and complexity, appreciation for cross team collaboration and operational practices common at large technology companies, and how you would contribute to that environment. Candidates should be able to speak to how their working style maps to this culture.
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.
Motivation for DoorDash and Data Science Role
Topic covers motivation for applying to DoorDash and specifically to a Data Science role, including alignment with DoorDash's mission, product strategy, and data-driven decision making, as well as demonstrating cultural fit and value you bring to the team.
Amazon Overview & Culture Fit
Overview of Amazon's business model, organizational structure, and leadership principles (Amazon Leadership Principles). Includes guidance on how to assess culture fit during interviews and discussions about Amazon's values and working environment.