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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HR screen then tech screen then panel. Focus of technical areas related to your breadth and depth. Focus seemed to be on data even though that was not focus of job listing. Expect to answer behavior questions in STAR format.
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Questions related to Amazon leadership principals.
Uninterested in tangible experience, just cookie cutter questions like "What is a CIDR range". Expected more from a company that is looking for innovative talent.
Wasn't difficult, just very condescending to be asked such generic questions that don't matter when they send you an arbitrary assessment and ignore what you are capable of doing.
It is a little long process. Mostly due to scheduling First with HR and know more about what and whys Second, technical screening which goes into behavioral Third, 3-4 sessions basically advanced screening
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What is the process of migrating from monolithic to microservices Define CI/CD Steps Find 2nd largest and 2nd smallest number from array with sorting method implemented by hand What is the diffcult decision that you had to make Circuit breaker pattern and benefits how orchestrated microservices failure is governed or moniored at the high robut millions of user env How do you design file upload api Difference between OIDC and OAUTH How to design api Difference between SQL and NOSQL , How each sc ales . Advantage and disadvantages?