American businessman, best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos always asked candidates the same unusual question during interviews.
American businessman, best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos always asked candidates the same unusual question during interviews.
«When I worked at Amazon from 1999 to 2006, Jeff Bezos’ favorite interview question was, ‘Are you a happy person?’ ” Dan Rose, a former Amazon executive turned investor, told X in a post. He believes this is a great way to filter out optimists and people who demonstrate success. This is also confirmed by psychologists and experts who believe that in this way you can easily check some of the most important qualities for success in business, including modesty, initiative and optimism, writes Inc.com. Experts believe that happy people tend to be optimists, and optimism helps to achieve success in business.
Another question Bezos asks candidates is to talk about their past mistakes. The Amazon CEO believes that one of the truest and best signs of true intelligence is the ability to admit mistakes and learn from them.
«Is the potential hire lucky?» Bezos also asks candidates when talking about their employment. And paradoxically, admitting that he was lucky is actually a great way to appreciate modesty and humility, says venture capitalist Patrick Mair. And Bezos considers the ability to recognize luck a useful and necessary skill for a new employee. First of all, because, according to the Amazon CEO, luck is often just keen observation and attentiveness to opportunities.
