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Architects design structures ranging from skyscrapers to community parks as they exercise creativity, analytical engineering, and technology skills. The job market for an architect is competitive. During your interview, you'll want to demonstrate high-level design thinking and an enthusiasm for collaboration with many types of project stakeholders.

Top Architect Interview Questions & How to Answer

Question 1

Question 1: How would you deal with a difficult client?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you to showcase your ability to solve problems and work through difficulties to accomplish a task. Discuss how you used your communication and interpersonal skills to work with the client to complete the job. Provide examples from your personal experience as an architect when possible.
Question 2

Question 2: What computer-aided design software are you familiar with, and how have you used it?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question lets you share your breadth of knowledge on computer-aided design (CAD) programs to construct 3D modeling. Ideally, you're well-versed in the CAD program that the company uses and can speak to how you've used it for projects in the past. If you're familiar with more than one, you can discuss the differences and point out the benefits and drawbacks of each program. If you're only familiar with one, speak to your level of specialized knowledge specific to that program.
Question 3

Question 3: What was one of your favorite projects, and why?

How to answer
How to answer: This open-ended question allows you to share your favorite project and demonstrate your passion for your work as an architect. Discuss the project from start to finish, focusing on the aspects that made it one of your favorites. You should be able to describe your project clearly, along with the strategies you used and the reasons behind your architectural decisions.

21,039 architect interview questions shared by candidates

Difference between TCP and UDP protocols, how would you design what is needed to host a website on the internet (a VPC and the different components you can use in AWS? Nope. Doesn't apply to this AWS job interview), how would you make switches and routers redundant (because there are switches and routers that you can configure and use in AWS, right?), what would you use to store files on a network (I mentioned AWS EFS but hey, no no... No discussion of AWS features on an interview for an AWS job role) how can you make a fault tolerance database (if you're thinking about automatic snapshots, nope. Read replicas in RDS you say? No AWS topics allowed), what are some of the code repositories available on the internet, what is containerization (don't you dare mention ECS, ECR) why use it instead of a virtual machine, what is the OSI Model, a question about continuous development (can't remember the proper term).
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AWS Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Aug 10, 2018

Difference between TCP and UDP protocols, how would you design what is needed to host a website on the internet (a VPC and the different components you can use in AWS? Nope. Doesn't apply to this AWS job interview), how would you make switches and routers redundant (because there are switches and routers that you can configure and use in AWS, right?), what would you use to store files on a network (I mentioned AWS EFS but hey, no no... No discussion of AWS features on an interview for an AWS job role) how can you make a fault tolerance database (if you're thinking about automatic snapshots, nope. Read replicas in RDS you say? No AWS topics allowed), what are some of the code repositories available on the internet, what is containerization (don't you dare mention ECS, ECR) why use it instead of a virtual machine, what is the OSI Model, a question about continuous development (can't remember the proper term).

A lot of behavioral based questions, including "Tell me about the biggest mistake you've made professionally and what you learned from it," and "Tell me about a time you had to make a decision with incomplete data - what was your decision, and what would you do differently if you had to do it again?"
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Jun 29, 2020

A lot of behavioral based questions, including "Tell me about the biggest mistake you've made professionally and what you learned from it," and "Tell me about a time you had to make a decision with incomplete data - what was your decision, and what would you do differently if you had to do it again?"

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