150+ Questions by Theme
Beginner · 15 min read · Question Bank by Theme, Practise
Every question in the bank, grouped by theme, plus integrity, technical, hypothetical and manager questions.
This is the full question bank: 152 questions in 13 themes. That includes the eight themes of this course plus technical depth, motivation, hypotheticals, integrity and engineering-manager questions. Amazon's Leadership Principles have their own list of 42 questions on the Amazon page.
How to use this list
You don't need 152 answers. You need 8–10 stories and the ability to see which story fits a question. So:
The questions
Hypothetical questions need a different shape
Hypotheticals ("What would you do if…") aren't stories, but answer them with structure:
Further reading
Key takeaways
- 152 questions in 13 themes, plus 42 for Amazon's principles; all of them feed the Answer Drill.
- Map each question to a story rather than writing 152 answers.
- Recognise the theme from the wording in the first few seconds.
- Hypotheticals need structure: clarify, options, choose, measure, anchor.