Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world is worth an estimated $110 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
He founded Amazon as an online bookstore from his garage on July 4, 1994 after quitting his Wall Street job and moving to Seattle, Washington. Amazon had only a team of 10 in 1995, and Bezos was still driving packages to the post office himself during that period.
During that period Bezos asked job candidates for their SAT scores, The Atlantic's Franklin Foer reported. The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. “Setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been, and will continue to be, the single most important element of Amazon.com’s success,” wrote Bezos about Amazon’s workforce.
Most people would think that their SAT scores don't matter after college, but most people aren't Jeff Bezos.
The Amazon founder would ask every job candidate how they scored on the standardized test before submitting them to a Socratic-style interrogation, The Atlantic's Franklin Foer reported in a profile of the CEO published in the magazine's November issue.
Bezos believed that candidates' SAT scores were a reflection of their intelligence, according to The Atlantic.