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.
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.
Understanding of Amazon Business
Demonstrate concrete familiarity with Amazon s major business units, core products, and customer focus and explain how legal priorities differ across those lines of business. Candidates should be able to summarize retail and marketplace operations, subscription and membership programs, Amazon Web Services and cloud service offerings, advertising and measurement products, payments and fulfillment functions, device and content services, and the common regulatory or operational constraints that affect each area. Interviewers will look for the ability to identify unit specific legal issues such as consumer protection and advertising rules for advertising teams, cloud contracting and data transfer concerns for infrastructure teams, content licensing and intellectual property for media services, and payments regulation for commerce, and to describe how legal advice should be tailored to business objectives and operational realities.
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.
Spotify Motivation & Role Fit
Discussion of motivation for joining Spotify, how the candidate's background and skills align with the role, and demonstrated understanding of Spotify's culture, values, and product strategy to illustrate fit.
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.
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.
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.