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.
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.
Apple Product and Business Knowledge
Understanding of Apple's product philosophy including user experience focus, simplicity, and quality, combined with knowledge of the company's product portfolio, recent launches, services strategy, market dynamics, and public strategic priorities such as supply chain and sustainability. Candidates should be able to discuss how a project they would manage contributes to broader company strategy and to identify external and internal constraints that affect execution.
Questions to Ask the Interviewer
Preparing thoughtful questions to evaluate the role and the team. Candidates should plan questions about team size and structure, current priorities and projects, key challenges and known risks, reporting lines and success metrics, expectations for the first six to twelve months, collaboration cadence, and how decisions are made. Well chosen questions demonstrate curiosity, help the candidate assess fit, and show genuine interest in the work and stakeholders they would partner with.