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Anyone else started down the leadership principles interview prep path and couldn’t shake the feeling that this was similar to getting ready to join the crazy / brainwashed masses in Waco, Jonestown, heavens gate etc?

Recruiter recently was throwing out $420,000+ but I still had to say no thanks. Joining the team that runs Jeff Bezos petabyte scale billing tracking is not on my dream job list. Especially considering the turnover that team seems to have.

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Yeah, When I was given the interview prep talk and the associated material - I felt like I was being onboarded to a cult. I get the idea of having guiding principles, but a focused company would have like 3 or 4 key principles to live by - not 14. When you have 14 "principles", that hints to me that things are done by committee and consensus rather than dedicated vision and drive - too many cooks in the kitchen so to speak. The exact thing I wanted to avoid.

Exactly and the principles have secondary and tertiary official meanings. You have to unpeel the onion layers to get the Amazon interpretation of each principle.

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