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"As a software architect, you will be making high level decisions about the design and implementation of a company's software. During the interview process, expect to be tested on your knowledge of software tools and languages and their uses and limitations, as well as your ability to lead software engineers to help you accomplish your vision. A bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related field is expected."

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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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