"When hiring a technical manager, an employer will look for candidates with the management skills and industry knowledge to oversee company projects that require members to have large amounts of technical knowledge, usually in the form of programming and software development. Some of the interview questions you may be asked will target your management experience and philosophy while others will focus on your understanding of the technical processes you will be working with in the project."
Q: A time when you faced conflict? Q: Negative feedback? Q: Decision was taken without the manager's approval? Q: Performed something outside of the job description? Q: Favorite product? Why do you like it? What would you improve? How would you launch the improvement? Q: Product you don't like? How to improve? Q: Improve Alexa? Q: Respond to the price change by a competitor?
Study Amazon principal. Be ready for competency-based questions. Have a lot of scenarios prepared.
As a Project Manager, I rely on technical SMEs to do the heavy lifting when it comes to design/architecture; however, during the interview I was asked technical questions about how to design certain types of applications and/or how to use various tools.
Describe product life cycle with the adjoining processes, milestones and deliverables for each milestone.
Q: what is the difference between rdb and nosql. Q: how would you set up a server with db, no downtime, redundant, resilient, multi location, ..etc Q: how will you troubleshoot issues on linux, like network, process..etc Q: lots of S.T.A.R. questions. like tell me a time when you have failed, achieved something more than you think, stressed, ...etc how did you deal with it, what did you do...etc Q: when you enter a domain name into browser , what happens. Q: what is proxy Q: what is the difference proxy and routing Q: how CDN works Q: what is IDS/IPS, which layer in osi does it work? Q: how would you do a sql replication? Q: What is NAT Q: how does load balancer works , which brand would you use, Q: how would you connect to your servers for administration and troubleshooting, linux and windows? Q: what are the differences between windows and linux Q: what is error 500 on a web page.
How many times have you written code?
Design question Payments Compliance Engine AWS operates more than 245 countries and territories around the globe. Online payments data is highly regulated by compliance rules enforced by regulations differently in each country. Those regulation vary with different regulations which involves executing different set of processing in order to make payments compliant in certain countries and territories. Design end to end payments system which could be compliant with different local regulations. Compliance Rules : 1. Certain payment methods available only in EMEA regions. 2. AWS can only store payment method data short amount of time. 3. A country have a regulation to use only the cards issued in the country and block usage of other cards. Additional rules : 1. CVV cannot be stored and only available initial charges. 2. Customer needs to provide consent in order AWS to store data. 3. Re-occurring payments 4. End to end encryption.
Paying back to the community by listing questions not seen else where on Glassdoor. All LP questions are listed across multiple sites already. 1. System Design bookseller system like Goodreads, which shows Amazon book reviews on their site (login, registration were out of scope) book search, book details, reading reviews, adding reviews were in-scope 2. Cognitive ability in program management - How would you plan to move 100's of willing and unwilling internal users to a new version of your service. (took 15 mins with various cross questions) 3. Why my service not working ? (technical troubleshooting) (took about 20 mins, went deep into routing algo, to load balancer configuration to identifying specific logs in DNS servers, authoritative name servers, root servers, server logs, LB logs, VIPs)
When did you take a risky decision
- Compiled and Interpreted languages - Relational and NoSQL Databases - OLAP and OLTP - CI/CD concept and what is CI - Identity Federation - HTTPS/SSL - CIDR block - Subnet - Machine Learning: supervised and unsupervised learning - CDN
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