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Hi all, I have a phone screen next week for a Senior Financial Analyst role on an AWS Finance team (supporting one of the AWS services). It's a 60-minute video call on Amazon Chime with the hiring manager or a teammate.

For anyone who's been through an Amazon/AWS finance loop, I'd really appreciate insight on a few things:

1. How heavy is the phone screen on Leadership Principles vs actual finance/technical questions? Is it mostly behavioral at this stage?
2. What kind of finance questions came up? (forecasting, variance, P&L, modeling, SQL?) How deep did they go technically in the screen vs the onsite?
3. How many STAR stories did you realistically need for the phone screen alone?
4. Did they ask the failure question in the phone screen, or does that usually come in the onsite loop?
5. Anything that surprised you, or that you wish you'd prepped harder?

Hi all, I have a phone screen next week for a Senior Financial Analyst role on an AWS Finance team (supporting one of the AWS services). It's a 60-minute video call on Amazon Chime with the hiring manager or a teammate.

For anyone who's been through an Amazon/AWS finance loop, I'd really appreciate insight on a few things:

1. How heavy is the phone screen on Leadership Principles vs actual finance/technical questions? Is it mostly behavioral at this stage?
2. What kind of finance questions came up? (forecasting, variance, P&L, modeling, SQL?) How deep did they go technically in the screen vs the onsite?
3. How many STAR stories did you realistically need for the phone screen alone?
4. Did they ask the failure question in the phone screen, or does that usually come in the onsite loop?
5. Anything that surprised you, or that you wish you'd prepped harder?

Hi all, I have a phone screen next week for a Senior Financial Analyst role on an AWS Finance team (supporting one of the AWS services). It's a 60-minute video call on Amazon Chime with the hiring manager or a teammate.

For anyone who's been through an Amazon/AWS finance loop, I'd really appreciate insight on a few things:

1. How heavy is the phone screen on Leadership Principles vs actual finance/technical questions? Is it mostly behavioral at this stage?
2. What kind of finance questions came up? (forecasting, variance, P&L, modeling, SQL?) How deep did they go technically in the screen vs the onsite?
3. How many STAR stories did you realistically need for the phone screen alone?
4. Did they ask the failure question in the phone screen, or does that usually come in the onsite loop?
5. Anything that surprised you, or that you wish you'd prepped harder?

Hi all, I have a phone screen next week for a Senior Financial Analyst role on an AWS Finance team (supporting one of the AWS services). It's a 60-minute video call on Amazon Chime with the hiring manager or a teammate.

For anyone who's been through an Amazon/AWS finance loop, I'd really appreciate insight on a few things:

1. How heavy is the phone screen on Leadership Principles vs actual finance/technical questions? Is it mostly behavioral at this stage?

2. What kind of finance questions came up? (forecasting, variance, P&L, modeling, SQL?) How deep did they go technically in the screen vs the onsite?

3. How many STAR stories did you realistically need for the phone screen alone?

4. Did they ask the failure question in the phone screen, or does that usually come in the onsite loop?

5. Anything that surprised you, or that you wish you'd prepped harder?