How do you maintain the highest standards during project delivery?
Amazon places great focus on setting standards of excellence in all areas of its business. The interviewer wants assurance that, when hired, you will put significant effort and enthusiasm into helping the company maintain these standards of excellence.
Share with the interviewer the steps you take and the consideration you put into maintaining high standards as a Product Manager. Take the interviewer through a detailed journey of your process on the job, highlighting how your high standards have benefitted project delivery in the past. Then, assure the interviewer that you are ready to do the same as an Amazon Product Manager.
"The Amazon development team is built of world-class developers, designers, engineers, data scientists, researchers, and more. Rest assured, I will always put a premium effort forward to ensure that projects are delivered with the highest quality standards. To ensure that the highest standards are built and maintained during a project, I utilize numerous checklists and procedures that I consider non-negotiable. For instance, since the term quality can be subjective, I make sure that the project's quality criteria are incredibly clear from the start. I repeatedly reinforce with my team the need for quality at every stage. Sometimes shortcuts are attractive, but I ensure that we never trade quality for time. I am hyper-aware of threats such as scope creep, so I never let my guard down when it comes to changes in requests. I also perform quality audits along the way to ensure we are on track for every project milestone. When we can identify defects right away, the project can remain on track. The more closely we follow the project roadmap, the smoother the outcome."
