**Status**: Software Engineering Manager with 9+ years of total experience\n**Position**: Software Development Manager, Alexa\n**Location**: Boston, MA\n\nThe recruiter reached out to me on LinkedIn, had an initial phone call then scheduled for 1 hour phone screen with the hiring manager.\n\nSince this interview was for SDM role, the phone screen had only behavioral questions focused on the Leadership principles.\n\n* What do you think are the main responsibilities in your current role?\n* Based on my response to above, What is the scope of these responsibilities and which responsibilities do you think are the most important to your job and why?\n* Describe a time when you set unreasonable and unachievable goals to your team\n\t* Why did you do it?\n\t* How did they respond?\n\t* How did you handle their response\n* How do you handle your top performers?\n* Describe a time when you handled a underperformer that resulted in letting the employee go?\n\t* Describe the process you went through\n\t* What did you learn from your experience?\n\t* If you were to do it again, how would you do it differently?\n* Describe a time when you did something that is outside your regular job responsibilities that had a big impact\n* Describe a time when you made improvement to team processes?\n\t* How did you notice the inefficiency?\n\t* How did the team respond?\n\t* How did you handle the people that disagreed with you?\n\t* What is the end result?\n\nInterview went 15 minutes over, as the hiring manager and I had a good chat and I thought I did well. The interviewer made me have a pleasant experience and was honestly curious with his questions.\n\n2 days later I got a response that they didn\'t think I\'d be a good fit for the role I interviewed for but that I\'d be a good fit for Amazon and have asked me to apply for other roles.\n\nI asked about the 1 year cooling period and they told me that it is not a hard requirement, but a soft one that most recruiters follow and that I should feel encouraged to apply to other open positions at amazon before the 1 year cooling period if I think that a role is a good fit for my skills. *(so basically NO)*\n\nmy $0.02\n* Read the leadership principles and make sure to have examples ready for them\n* If possible, remember the timelines (Month and Year) for your examples, as they went into that level of detail in the interview\n* Ask clarifying questions where necessary\n\nGood luck with your search!

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