Priyanka Tiwari

Priyanka was confident in her abilities but unclear on her direction, oscillating between similar-level roles at smaller companies and big tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft without a clear sense of what she wanted.

She gained clarity on her goals and identity, committing decisively to her dream role at Amazon in the AI/ML space and feeling fully aligned with her choice.

Priyanka believed her resume was already great and needed little work before entering the program.

She worked with her coach Sam to clean up and revise key sections of her resume, ultimately submitting a refined version to Amazon.

Priyanka was passively entertaining recruiter emails and LinkedIn messages without a structured outreach strategy tied to specific target companies.

She built a targeted list of dream companies, identified her contacts at those companies, and leveraged a referral at AWS to move quickly through the process.

Priyanka felt she was already a good interviewer and her answers were strong, but she was unaware of gaps in her storytelling and interview approach, particularly for a structured process like Amazon's.

She developed a structured story bank of condensed 3–5 minute narratives, conducted multiple mock interviews with coaches and peers, and treated the Amazon interview process as a science with a deliberate game plan.

Priyanka was casually and passively job searching with no structured plan, applying broadly or sporadically without a clear framework for prioritization.

She worked with Sam to build a focused spreadsheet of dream roles, applied to only three jobs total, and followed a phase-one/phase-two strategy that kept her laser-focused on Amazon.

Priyanka self-described as not a strong negotiator when it came to salary and compensation discussions.

She received coaching support through the negotiation phase of her Amazon offer, allowing her to navigate it more effectively than she would have on her own.