Amazon Web Services Solution Architect interview questions
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Solution Architect applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 4.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Washington, DC)
Interview
1 HR interview, then tech interview - 1 primary interviewer. HR interview was brief. For tech interview, primary interviewer led discussion, with follow up questions from a secondary interviewer. Interview went approximately 1 hour and was focused on basic technologies.
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Question 1
What is the main area of your technical background?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Toronto, ON)
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The interview process feels unnecessarily lengthy. The recruiter neglected to align my resume with a role that utilizes my experience. This led to a complete mismatch with the team I was interviewing with.
- Phone interview: Screening about your experience
- Technical Test interview: Question/discussion of some cloud esepecially aws services. If you ever prepare for cloud practicioner or associate solution architect, will be very helpfull in answering all the quetions.
- Solution design homework: You will be given a task, to design a solution with its documentation for a use case. Like design a solution for hyperscale e-commerce. Then there will be follow up interview to discuss about it.
- Loop interview: There will be sequence of some people, itnerview differently, with different roles. This to assses our behaviour with AWS Leadership principles. Ex; Tell me when you do bias for action.