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 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.
Spotify Mission & Data Passion
Interest in Spotify's mission, product strategy, and data culture; demonstrates understanding of Spotify's business model and data-driven decision-making, and articulates how the candidate's motivations align with Spotify's values and data governance practices.
Career Motivation & Google Alignment
Career motivation and alignment with Google's values, mission, leadership principles, and cultural expectations; explores why the candidate wants to work at Google, long-term career goals, and fit with Google's work environment.
Company Product and Brand Knowledge
Evaluates familiarity with a specific company product ecosystem, brand identity, and design language. Candidates should demonstrate knowledge of key products and user journeys across platforms, brand voice and visual identity choices, the company design system or stylistic conventions, typical user needs and pain points, and competitive positioning. Interviewers may ask candidates to cite concrete examples from company products, explain how design decisions support business goals, and propose realistic improvements that respect brand constraints and platform conventions.
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.