Understanding of Amazon Business Questions

Demonstrate concrete familiarity with Amazon's major business units, core products, and customer focus. Candidates should be able to summarize how Amazon's retail and marketplace operations, Prime subscription and membership programs, Amazon Web Services and cloud offerings, advertising and measurement products, payments and fulfillment functions, and device and content services (Kindle, Alexa, Prime Video, etc.) fit together into one company strategy. Interviewers will look for candidates to explain what each business unit actually sells and to whom, how the units reinforce each other (for example, Prime driving retail loyalty, AWS funding growth, advertising monetizing retail traffic), Amazon's customer-obsession and long-term-thinking approach to tradeoffs, and how a candidate's own function would create value within or alongside these business lines.