Amazon is a highly sought after company to work for , and today has well over 500,000 employees. But in the company's early days — when Amazon's headquarters had only just moved from Jeff Bezos' garage into a downtown Seattle office near a heroine-needle exchange and a porn shop — there were far fewer employees. Amazon was only a team of 10 in 1995 , and Bezos was still driving packages to the post office himself. To ensure that the company would retain high standards as it grew, Bezos outlined a simple, three-question test for hiring new employees in his 1998 letter to shareholders , a year after the online bookseller went public. "It would be impossible to produce results in an environment as dynamic as the Internet without extraordinary people," Bezoswrote of Amazon's workforce, which in three years had ballooned to 2,100 people. "Setting the bar high in our approach to hiring has been, and will continue to be, the single most import...