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Hmmm. Design a 3 tier web app (Ec2, rds, scaling groups, etc) Repeat with lambda and api gateway Check for monitoring, logging, scaling,l I guess you could always ask stuff about s3 tiers Hmm simple things like. What are important things when developing a new api? Ask about the o wasp vulnerabilities ‘You are on call and are told “the website is slow”. How would you diagnose? (Logs, networks, scaling, monitoring, etc) Ask them to describe the latest thing they worked on and diagram it out/explain it. They should be able to ;). As they go it might lead to more questions (‘what does this part do)
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Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Nov 3, 2021

Hmmm. Design a 3 tier web app (Ec2, rds, scaling groups, etc) Repeat with lambda and api gateway Check for monitoring, logging, scaling,l I guess you could always ask stuff about s3 tiers Hmm simple things like. What are important things when developing a new api? Ask about the o wasp vulnerabilities ‘You are on call and are told “the website is slow”. How would you diagnose? (Logs, networks, scaling, monitoring, etc) Ask them to describe the latest thing they worked on and diagram it out/explain it. They should be able to ;). As they go it might lead to more questions (‘what does this part do)

The first phone interview was mainly technical: -Tell me about the current technology you work with -What is your favorite product/solution? How does it work? -What are the characteristic of a cloud solution? -Describe how HCI works -Describe how network virtualization works -Assume you are building an scalable website. Describe at high level how would you build this solution For the second stage (the loop), they sent a customer scenario. Basically a CloudFormation template to replicate what the hypothetical customer had built (which was broken), and the scope of the exercise was to make it functional and describe the steps I took to solve it, as well as how to prepare the solution for the future (make it highly available, secure, etc). And produce a document with the answer. The loop: Before this the recruiter contacted me to make sure I understood the process, availability to cover the market for the role, language skills, salary expectation and give me some tips on how to do the interview (use the STAR model, learn and understand the leadership principles, use metrics when answering) During each interview they focus on 2 Leadership Principles. (Depending on the role some might not be relevant... e.g. if you apply for an individual contributor they won't ask about "Hire and developt the best") Some of the questions I was asked throughout the 5 interviews: The first one was mainly technical and the question were related for the most part to the scenario: - Differences between security groups and NACL -Stateless vs Stateful -IAM Roles -What is the most technical project you have worked on? For the rest of the interviews: -Tell me about a time you received negative feedback and what did you do about it? -Tell me about a time you have gone beyond the scope of your role -Tell me about a time you disagree with your manager or a colleague -Tell me about a time you did what was best for the customer -Tell me about a time you had to learn something new to complete a project -Tell me about a time you didn't meet a deadline and about a time you went the extra mile to meet a deadline
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Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Nov 16, 2020

The first phone interview was mainly technical: -Tell me about the current technology you work with -What is your favorite product/solution? How does it work? -What are the characteristic of a cloud solution? -Describe how HCI works -Describe how network virtualization works -Assume you are building an scalable website. Describe at high level how would you build this solution For the second stage (the loop), they sent a customer scenario. Basically a CloudFormation template to replicate what the hypothetical customer had built (which was broken), and the scope of the exercise was to make it functional and describe the steps I took to solve it, as well as how to prepare the solution for the future (make it highly available, secure, etc). And produce a document with the answer. The loop: Before this the recruiter contacted me to make sure I understood the process, availability to cover the market for the role, language skills, salary expectation and give me some tips on how to do the interview (use the STAR model, learn and understand the leadership principles, use metrics when answering) During each interview they focus on 2 Leadership Principles. (Depending on the role some might not be relevant... e.g. if you apply for an individual contributor they won't ask about "Hire and developt the best") Some of the questions I was asked throughout the 5 interviews: The first one was mainly technical and the question were related for the most part to the scenario: - Differences between security groups and NACL -Stateless vs Stateful -IAM Roles -What is the most technical project you have worked on? For the rest of the interviews: -Tell me about a time you received negative feedback and what did you do about it? -Tell me about a time you have gone beyond the scope of your role -Tell me about a time you disagree with your manager or a colleague -Tell me about a time you did what was best for the customer -Tell me about a time you had to learn something new to complete a project -Tell me about a time you didn't meet a deadline and about a time you went the extra mile to meet a deadline

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