Amazon employee hired ‘on the spot’ after they answered Jeff Bezos' two most important interview questions

An Amazon employee has revealed the whirlwind experience of being hired on the spot by Jeff Bezos after answering just two questions.

Let's face it going for an interview is always a nerve wrecking experience.

However, going for an interview and finding yourself seated across from the CEO of the company is a story that would put chills down even the steeliest person's spine.

This is the exact scenario that Ann Hiatt found herself in back in 2002, after completing several rounds of gruelling interviews for a job at Amazon.

Now, most of us would probably clam up when finding ourselves unexpectedly seated across from the most powerful person at the company but not Hiatt, who was more than able to rise to the challenge.

After graduating from the University of Washington, Hiatt discovered that many of her former classmates were left struggling to find suitable employment.

With this in mind, Hiatt decided to broaden her career horizons and explore a career in numerous different industries.

This led her to apply for a job at Amazon as Bezos' junior assistant - despite having no prior experience in the role.

However, her ambition paid off and, after a number of 'dizzying' interviews with senior assistants, Hiatt found herself through to the last stage.

Little did she know, the last stage was a sit down chat with the boss himself.

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It didn't help that Bezos proceeded to ask rather unorthodox questions as well, which meant that Hiatt had to think very quickly on her feet.

Recalling the interview process to CNBC, she said: "Bezos started the interview by promising that he was only going to ask two questions and that the first one would be a 'fun' brainteaser."

The 'fun' brainteaser turned out to be asking her to estimate how many panes of glass there was in the entire city of Seattle.

Hiatt admitted she was initially thrown by the pretty left-field question, but managed to gather her thoughts and come up with a suitable answer.

"I outlined how I would start with the number of people in Seattle, which I thankfully correctly guessed as around 1 million, just to make the math easier," she recalled.

"Then I said that they would each have a home, a mode of transportation, and an office or school - all of which would have windows. So I suggested that we base the estimate on averages of those."

Hiatt has since risen through the ranks at Amazon to become a Executive Business Partner. (Instagram/@annhiatt)

After spending around 10 minutes working out an answer, she presented her answer to Bezos, who appeared to be satisfied and said: "That looks about right."

Moving on to the second question, Bezos asked Hiatt what her goals were to which she explained that Amazon had attracted her due to its 'ambitious and passionate people'.

She continued: "I explained that I had no idea how to be an assistant, but that I knew the importance of being consistently outside of my comfort zone. I wanted to jump into an astronomical learning and growth curve."

Her responses clearly won over Bezos, who hired her 'on the spot'.

Since then Hiatt has only gone from strength-to-strength, rising from a junior assistant to become one of Bezos' Executive Business Partners.