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Each of the six interviewers asked several behavioral questions tied to the Amazon leadership principals, such as: * Tell me about a time that you used customer feedback to make a dramatic change in your documentation.* Tell me about a time that you sacrificed in the short term for long-term results. What was the long-term result? What did you learn? (Often, they had follow-up questions.) * Tell me about a time that you had to document something quickly without having all of the information that you would have liked. * Describe a time when you spent many, many hours learning how something worked so that you could deliver accurate technical documentation. * Tell me about a time that you were involved in a planning meeting and disagreed with the group's decision. How did you react? Did the issue come up again later?
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Senior Technical Writer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Sep 7, 2019

Each of the six interviewers asked several behavioral questions tied to the Amazon leadership principals, such as: * Tell me about a time that you used customer feedback to make a dramatic change in your documentation.* Tell me about a time that you sacrificed in the short term for long-term results. What was the long-term result? What did you learn? (Often, they had follow-up questions.) * Tell me about a time that you had to document something quickly without having all of the information that you would have liked. * Describe a time when you spent many, many hours learning how something worked so that you could deliver accurate technical documentation. * Tell me about a time that you were involved in a planning meeting and disagreed with the group's decision. How did you react? Did the issue come up again later?

"Tell me about a specific time when...." cut through the Miss America answers and forced me to be honest about what I really had contributed, beyond just showing up and doing your duties, at my old position. Also, asking me about my samples--shocked me that they'd actually reviewed them in depth and had questions! Every answer I gave them prompted another question, like explaining "why" to a 3-year old, only these guys knew what they were asking about!
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Senior Technical Writer

Interviewed at Salesforce

4
Aug 18, 2012

"Tell me about a specific time when...." cut through the Miss America answers and forced me to be honest about what I really had contributed, beyond just showing up and doing your duties, at my old position. Also, asking me about my samples--shocked me that they'd actually reviewed them in depth and had questions! Every answer I gave them prompted another question, like explaining "why" to a 3-year old, only these guys knew what they were asking about!

One thing different from other interviews was that they asked me to go through the slides that I prepared during the writing test. I heard from a couple of other agencies that the face-to-face interview will include feedback on the writing test, but Lucid were the first ones to actually do it. I admit I didn't prepare for it (after a couple of previous interviews where it was promised and didn't happen, I though it'd be pointless to prepare - my bad!)
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Senior Medical Writer

Interviewed at Lucid Group

3.1
Sep 9, 2019

One thing different from other interviews was that they asked me to go through the slides that I prepared during the writing test. I heard from a couple of other agencies that the face-to-face interview will include feedback on the writing test, but Lucid were the first ones to actually do it. I admit I didn't prepare for it (after a couple of previous interviews where it was promised and didn't happen, I though it'd be pointless to prepare - my bad!)

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