The Amazon Writing Sample in 100 seconds — Transcript

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1. 0:06so WR communication is an important part
2. 0:08of Amazon's culture and this is why they
3. 0:10will ask certain candidates to subit a
4. 0:12writing sample as part of their final
5. 0:15interview and usually there are two
6. 0:17possible questions here either it's a
7. 0:19judgment call you've made recently or
8. 0:22what is the most inventive or Innovative
9. 0:24thing you've done the upper limit for
10. 0:27the writing assignment is around two
11. 0:29pages or 8,000 characters and it is
12. 0:31advised to use the use of bullet points
13. 0:34also a starting point for you to
14. 0:35consider will be the structure it in the
15. 0:36Star Format even if that's not mandatory
16. 0:39the best writing samples I've seen score
17. 0:41high on Clarity of thought and flow okay
18. 0:44so a good idea is to ask a friend to
19. 0:46review it ideally not someone who's in
20. 0:47similar role and to ask if they
21. 0:49understood it from the first time they
22. 0:51went over it usually the most timec
23. 0:54consuming part is not writing but
24. 0:56revising it and let me just emphasize
25. 0:59that your English doesn't have to be
26. 1:01perfect it just has to be you CH GPT can
27. 1:03at best help you to rename a few
28. 1:05keywords here and there and it is a good
29. 1:07idea to spell check it any major editor
30. 1:09will suffice content wise tries to be as
31. 1:12specific as possible with all the
32. 1:14relevant details however don't overthink
33. 1:16it be sure to talk about results and
34. 1:18quantify them numbers metrics and even
35. 1:21Frameworks will help you to make the
36. 1:22writing sample more credible and last
37. 1:26but not least you don't have to wait
38. 1:27until the day before your interview to
39. 1:29submit it