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Super day interviews: - System Design: Went through my resume, asked a couple of queries there, talked about RAG, what AI you worked on ? how did you use AI to carry out a project in your resume? Why did you not used AI if you didn't ? API management, what Clouds you worked on? chance to ask. REST API vs GraphQL ? API version management ? What are CDNs and how many do you know ? Followed by some leadership principles, and chance to ask. - Hiring Manager Interview: Best three leadership principles, worst leadership principle in your opinion. Why AWS ? What is your high and low moments of your carrier? Leadership principles: Speed vs Quality? chance to ask. - Tech Fit Interview: held with Tamara+Sara: tamara kept hereself behind curtain all the times and appeared in the last two minutes on the CHIME software. While Tamara was senior she let a Junior take the interview. The Interviewer Ms. Sara was Not the best communicator. The network lag was there in Amazn CHIME, the audio was distorted, I tried to connect using dial in via phone, over ther the audio was even worse. Had to skip a couple of questions due to the audio issues with Amazon chime software. This could have been improved over the years. Technical start, Cloud architecture, asked for examples on cloud native apps, give examples for microservices you worked with. WHat tech stack you choose, and why ? what visualisation did you choose, how did you decide among many options for the visualisation. Give a project example which is not Data pipeline specific, no ETL etc? Interviewer asked some other vague questions that needed to clarified, do clarify the context of the question. Followed by a coding test. again same second smallest and second largest number coding exercise. Last question whether I have worked on moderenisation? Give an example of system you built/designed without data pieplines? - Fourth Interview with Chiragh: Adoption to a current software you are working on, onbaording, Anything you did exceptional (going out of the way) that helped a client and your own employer? Example of a problem you faced and you step up to resolve it without being asked by management? tell me a time when you worked to resolve an issue? - Fifth interview with Mr. Olu: (he was the only coolest interviewer at Amazon TBH) Behavioural questions with minor level details. Focused on leadership principles including Bias for Action. Tell me about a time you had to dive deep into data to solve a problem. Give me an example where you have to take a risky action without consulting others ? Give me an example of time when you went out of the way and did something that helped your team? Example where you went above and beyound for customer?
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Cloud Application Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5★
Dec 12, 2025

Super day interviews: - System Design: Went through my resume, asked a couple of queries there, talked about RAG, what AI you worked on ? how did you use AI to carry out a project in your resume? Why did you not used AI if you didn't ? API management, what Clouds you worked on? chance to ask. REST API vs GraphQL ? API version management ? What are CDNs and how many do you know ? Followed by some leadership principles, and chance to ask. - Hiring Manager Interview: Best three leadership principles, worst leadership principle in your opinion. Why AWS ? What is your high and low moments of your carrier? Leadership principles: Speed vs Quality? chance to ask. - Tech Fit Interview: held with Tamara+Sara: tamara kept hereself behind curtain all the times and appeared in the last two minutes on the CHIME software. While Tamara was senior she let a Junior take the interview. The Interviewer Ms. Sara was Not the best communicator. The network lag was there in Amazn CHIME, the audio was distorted, I tried to connect using dial in via phone, over ther the audio was even worse. Had to skip a couple of questions due to the audio issues with Amazon chime software. This could have been improved over the years. Technical start, Cloud architecture, asked for examples on cloud native apps, give examples for microservices you worked with. WHat tech stack you choose, and why ? what visualisation did you choose, how did you decide among many options for the visualisation. Give a project example which is not Data pipeline specific, no ETL etc? Interviewer asked some other vague questions that needed to clarified, do clarify the context of the question. Followed by a coding test. again same second smallest and second largest number coding exercise. Last question whether I have worked on moderenisation? Give an example of system you built/designed without data pieplines? - Fourth Interview with Chiragh: Adoption to a current software you are working on, onbaording, Anything you did exceptional (going out of the way) that helped a client and your own employer? Example of a problem you faced and you step up to resolve it without being asked by management? tell me a time when you worked to resolve an issue? - Fifth interview with Mr. Olu: (he was the only coolest interviewer at Amazon TBH) Behavioural questions with minor level details. Focused on leadership principles including Bias for Action. Tell me about a time you had to dive deep into data to solve a problem. Give me an example where you have to take a risky action without consulting others ? Give me an example of time when you went out of the way and did something that helped your team? Example where you went above and beyound for customer?

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