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Amazon uses "bar raisers," top employees who oversee interview panels and ensure each interviewer assesses candidates against one of 14 leadership principles. This prevents repetitive questions and keeps hiring aligned with company values.
Amazon uses "bar raisers," top employees who oversee interview panels and ensure each interviewer assesses candidates against one of 14 leadership principles. This prevents repetitive questions and keeps hiring aligned with company values.
Amazon wants to hire bar raisers. The idea is to continually hire people that are smarter than you. Like, I can appoint you as a bar raiser in the company if I think you're like top tier. And your job is you'll come into the interview process, you're not a hiring manager, this role doesn't affect you. Basically, you'll come and say like, do I think this person's a bar raiser or not? So you're going to oversee the process. So imagine a new hire, like you're kind of overseeing, you're checking in to make sure that the hiring managers are following the process. Also, the people that are involved with the hiring process, they're assigned to a certain value, right? And they have like 14 values actually, right? And so you go through the entire list, but it's like, that's to make sure people don't repeat the same thing. And they're asking them historical experience-related questions as it relates to each value, and then they make a decision at the end.
