Speaking confidently
Demonstrating ownership
Showing architectural judgment
Emphasize AWS-scale systems
Emphasize backend-heavy, distributed design
Emphasize automation and cost optimizationLeading a technical initiative end-to-end
Making tradeoffs under ambiguity
Handling production incidents
Pushing back on bad requirements
Mentoring engineers (even informally)
They will look for:
Decision-making maturity
Calm handling of failures
Bias toward action
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a cloud-based system to process healthcare data securely
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Vancouver, BC)
Interview
Study the first 20 amazon tagged questions on leetcode. most of my questions came from there. I had some slightly more difficult more broad software design questions that were like "design and implement a filesystem search class". The last interview was mainly about past experiences and relating them to leadership principles, be prepared to make that mapping on the fly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Study the first 20 amazon tagged questions on leetcode
Applied through referral and had online round and one virtual face to face round.Online round consists of Leader ship principal with scenario based questions with options along with 2 dsa questions. later got email for virtual face to face round.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Math based binary operation dsa qn.
2 Amzon store house-manager related dsa qn