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Principal Software Development Engineer Interview Questions
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How about the big view of your role to the whole product (e.g., simulation)?
NA -- the questions are all simple and straightforward -- no strange quick questions
I'd never encountered this style before but I use it now myself. The interviewer role played an actual troubleshooting scenario and would accept actual unix commands and return the appropriate data. I was being tested on my breadth of technical/troubleshooting knowledge as well as duress under fire (as if the interview isn't enough, now I'm dealing with a virtual outage in realtime). I think the actual statement was along the lines of "Your peer approaches you outside as you enter the building. He hands you the paper with the new root password on it and says 'Server xyz is acting funny and noone can use the service. I need to run out to deal with an emergency but will be back as soon as I can'. As your peer turns and steps into the road he is hit by a bus. What do you do?"
How do you deal with the "not invented here" syndrome.
The hardest question I encountered was in the panel presentation, I was asked how SFDC helps a company transform from channel sales to direct sales.
Design a log management system The other questions were all soft skills/work history
Blah blah describe a moment where everything failed blah blah
Describe a situation where you had to take a decision without data?
Recruiter sent a set of questions to answer and send them a copy. Questions were focusing in your failures, achievements, Amazon leadership and how it maps to your experience, as well as explain the most difficult project you got involved. I needed to prepare that before they arrange/offer a phone interview. Prior to my interview, I expressed the recruiter that I do not write code and I do not want questions to be asked in coding or SW design. I did not have any problems with SW project management, requirements and etc. My main background was HW. In my phone interview, there was not any single question about Amazon leadership or any questions about my resume. Only question was about API design and detail system SW design. I thought this is program management position and I felt uncomfortable with SW API design questions.
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