Amazon Web Services Sr. Solution Architect interview questions

1. Passed the online assessment. Consists of multiple customer centric question. The emphasis is about AWS product knowledge with the tone aiming more towards pre sales scenario. Several scenarios about debugging and advising the clients. Keep in mind their mentality "Customer Obsession" Because it will lead to successfully pass the assessment. The assessment is not proctored. You can make use of google to help yourself. But the thinking seems to be based on this mentality: "will it reduce costs for customers? Will it be simple to implement? " Example: "Customer asked: We announced a christmas sales-discount. We don't know why our web traffic is slowing down. What should we do?" 2. Phone-Screening - Had an Interview with a senior architect from their house in SEA. I believe one of their celebrity engineer/architect L7 or above. The person will be announced via email. Check the persons linkedin, it's website etc. in order to find out what character you might encounter. - Attention: You can prepare the hell out of you, coding, high level architecture or behavioral questions etc. At the end it comes how much luck you have, bc it depends on who will interview you and what level of knowledge you have about AWS. I rehearsed the behavioral interview and how to explain system design by speaking with AI until exhaustion. I crunched 8 nights, while my toddler was sick. During the interview I found out that it didn't matter much. I was asked to walk through pipelines and structures how it can be translated to AWS products. - For example load balancing and hashing with EC2 nodes, Throughput criteria in S3 storages, Metadata writings in Dynamodb etc. Questions like that. - My interviewer was not fluffing, pushed strong and were a mix of rapid fire question and going deep in the rabbit hole. He gave me the choice, either via a zoom whiteboard, a presentation, or vocally. I want to be fair. I was very nervous. The interview was professional, You really cannot predict what kind of interview you will encounter. It can be a friendly one, a story telling behavioral or a pure technical dive. Not all of them at once. Just be prepared. I did not pass. But I hope my comment helps. Wishing others best of luck.

Phone screen, very well handled by the recruiter, followed by an interview to discuss a take-home assignment with 2 people from the Solutions Architect team. They asked reasonable questions to try to ascertain my expertise, good conversation all around, surprisingly low pressure.