Amazon Work Style Assessment: Personality 3 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: The Work Style Assessment asks you to rate agreement with statements. Which best aligns with 'Frugality'?
- More resources always produce better results
- Constraints breed resourcefulness and invention (Correct answer)
- Spending freely shows commitment
- Budgets should never limit ideas
Correct answer: Constraints breed resourcefulness and invention
Frugality holds that constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency, and invention.
Question 2: A scenario asks how you'd react if your idea was overruled after debate. The most Amazon-aligned response is to:
- Quietly resist the decision
- Commit fully and support the decision once it's made (Correct answer)
- Refuse to participate further
- Repeatedly reopen the argument
Correct answer: Commit fully and support the decision once it's made
'Disagree and Commit' means once a decision is made, you commit wholly even if you disagreed.
Question 3: When the assessment probes how you approach learning, the strongest response reflects 'Learn and Be Curious' by saying you:
- Stick to skills you already have
- Seek to improve yourself and explore new possibilities (Correct answer)
- Learn only what's required for promotion
- Avoid unfamiliar topics
Correct answer: Seek to improve yourself and explore new possibilities
Leaders are never done learning and always seek to improve themselves.
Question 4: The test shows a deadline crunch where quality and speed conflict. The response best fitting 'Deliver Results' while keeping standards is to:
- Abandon the deadline entirely
- Focus on key inputs, deliver with quality, and rise to setbacks (Correct answer)
- Cut corners and hide the gaps
- Blame others for the time pressure
Correct answer: Focus on key inputs, deliver with quality, and rise to setbacks
Deliver Results means focusing on key inputs and delivering them with the right quality despite setbacks.
Question 5: An item asks about your approach to coworkers' ideas. The 'Are Right, A Lot' principle is best shown by:
- Trusting only your own judgment
- Seeking diverse perspectives and working to disconfirm your beliefs (Correct answer)
- Always deferring to the majority
- Ignoring data that contradicts you
Correct answer: Seeking diverse perspectives and working to disconfirm your beliefs
Leaders seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm their own beliefs to be right often.
Question 6: When asked how you handle a long-term project that won't show results for years, the Amazon-aligned answer reflects 'Think Big' and patience by:
- Abandoning anything without quick payoff
- Being willing to invest for the long term, even when misunderstood (Correct answer)
- Only pursuing short-term wins
- Avoiding bold goals to stay safe
Correct answer: Being willing to invest for the long term, even when misunderstood
Amazon leaders think long term and are willing to be misunderstood for long periods.
Question 7: The assessment asks about your reaction to a mistake you made. The best response demonstrating 'Earn Trust' is to:
- Cover it up to protect your image
- Admit it openly and self-critically, then fix it (Correct answer)
- Blame the process
- Wait to see if anyone notices
Correct answer: Admit it openly and self-critically, then fix it
Earn Trust means being vocally self-critical and treating yourself and the team honestly.
Amazon Work Style Assessment: Personality 3
The Work Style Assessment asks you to rate agreement with statements.
Which best aligns with 'Frugality'?