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Fortune
Jessica Coacci

This is Jeff Bezos’ favorite interview question—and it comes down to being an inventor

Jeff Bezos (Credit: Stefano Guidi-Getty Images)

Jeff Bezos doesn’t just ask his candidates about their resumes and previous employers. He focuses on a different requirement: innovation. 

“When I interview people, I ask them to give me an example of something they’ve invented,” the founder of e-commerce giant Amazon said more than a decade ago. Per Bezos, it doesn’t necessarily have to be something taken to the patent office, but it could be a metric or business process the candidate invented and sought after carefully. 

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