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The most common theme with each interview was asking about big mistakes and areas of growth that I felt I needed. While I have not heard back yet (hence I put No above), I was incredibly impressed with the diligence of the process. Regardless of the outcome, or decision, I would encourage people if they have a chance to apply and go through the process to challenge yourself.
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Principal, Regulatory Assurance

Interviewed at Amazon Web Services

3.6
Sep 20, 2023

The most common theme with each interview was asking about big mistakes and areas of growth that I felt I needed. While I have not heard back yet (hence I put No above), I was incredibly impressed with the diligence of the process. Regardless of the outcome, or decision, I would encourage people if they have a chance to apply and go through the process to challenge yourself.

On Agile: What is the difference between product manager and product owner ? How many EPIC's have you managed ? Who defines the acceptance criteria ? What is the definition of done and ready ? How do you manage technical debt ? On Technical and DevOps: What is the difference between VM and Docker ? What do you know about Reducing Toil ? Have you worked on Azure ? How do you do software patching ? (God knows what question is this for a product owner) What do you know about SaaS, Paas ? What are different types of load balancers in AWS ?
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Principal Technical Product Owner

Interviewed at Nuance

4
Apr 28, 2021

On Agile: What is the difference between product manager and product owner ? How many EPIC's have you managed ? Who defines the acceptance criteria ? What is the definition of done and ready ? How do you manage technical debt ? On Technical and DevOps: What is the difference between VM and Docker ? What do you know about Reducing Toil ? Have you worked on Azure ? How do you do software patching ? (God knows what question is this for a product owner) What do you know about SaaS, Paas ? What are different types of load balancers in AWS ?

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