Mentors who have worked at Amazon
Work with people who have been through Amazon's loop and worked inside it — on Leadership Principles answers, bar-raiser rounds, and whether the role you are considering is the one you actually want.
Before you book a Amazon mentor
How do I choose the right Amazon mentor?
Amazon is the one large company where the behavioural round is genuinely decisive rather than a formality. Its Leadership Principles are published, so the raw material is public — but knowing them is not the same as having a story for each that survives follow-up questions about your specific contribution. Rehearsing that against someone who has asked those questions is the highest-leverage hour you can book.
What should I bring to a Amazon mentor session?
Bring two or three real situations rather than a polished narrative. A mentor's job here is to probe: what exactly did you decide, what did you trade away, and what happened afterwards. Vague ownership is the most common reason strong candidates are rated down.
If you already have an offer, ask directly about on-call load, team tenure and what the first six months look like. These vary enormously between orgs and are hard to learn from outside.
What people bring to these sessions
- Building Leadership Principles stories that survive follow-ups
- What the bar-raiser round is actually testing
- Reading an Amazon offer: level, sign-on and the vesting shape
- Whether a specific org matches how you want to work
- Scaling and operational ownership at high volume
9 mentors
- David García — Senior Program Manager at amazon. Project Management, Business Growth Strategies, Business Development
- Vikas Malhotra — Tech Executive at amazon. Artificial Intelligence, GenAI, Java
- Akshay Kapoor — Senior Cloud Infrastructure Architect at amazon web services (aws). Site Reliability Engineering, Server Architecture, Cloud Application Development
- Akanksha Gupta — Engineering Manager at amazon. Career guidance, Engineering beyond software, Career transitions
- Anshika Bansal — Software Engineer 2 at amazon. Career guidance, Planning next career moves, Growing into senior roles
- Jymit Khondhu — matillion. Cybersecurity fundamentals, Security engineering, Leadership
- Suiyao Chen — Applied Scientist at amazon. Career guidance, Career transitions, Switching roles or domains
- Pratibha Singh — Career Coach at interview kickstart. Mentoring, Coaching & Mentoring, Screening Resumes
- Ritesh Kumar — Software development manager at amazon