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Recruiter screen: • RDBMS vs NOSQL, benefits, usage • what is a 3-tier app • describe RTO and RPO Arch interview • explain a VM vs containers • Explain CICD • Something about topography • what are my main strengths • cc availability vs durability Panel questions: • name a time improved something at work, how did it. * tell a time got rough feedback * A time a team member did not perform duties * Design considerations for high distributed systems *3-tier applications * single point of failure * Database UI * Monolith vs microservices * RTO and RPO * tiered storage * leverage contanerization in apps *load balancing in apps * running a website, user complains it is slow, I am a consultant, what do I advise? * ecommerce site wants to select a new database, compare RDBMS to NOSQL, * New product, social networking platform, opinion and sentiment data ... what solution *what is CICD *when met a foal and exceeded expectations, how did I do it, what were challenges *tell time I made a bad decision * snowflake instead of Redshift *tell about a time did not meet a promised timeline * time made an important decision, did I move forward or gather more information *tell about a time I sacrificed short term gain to add value int the long run * something significant I did outside my area of expertise * tell time dug deep to get to the root cause * top 3 data challenges, what are they? * ETL vs ELT etc *Many questions about ETL vendors
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Senior Solutions Architect

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
May 25, 2022

Recruiter screen: • RDBMS vs NOSQL, benefits, usage • what is a 3-tier app • describe RTO and RPO Arch interview • explain a VM vs containers • Explain CICD • Something about topography • what are my main strengths • cc availability vs durability Panel questions: • name a time improved something at work, how did it. * tell a time got rough feedback * A time a team member did not perform duties * Design considerations for high distributed systems *3-tier applications * single point of failure * Database UI * Monolith vs microservices * RTO and RPO * tiered storage * leverage contanerization in apps *load balancing in apps * running a website, user complains it is slow, I am a consultant, what do I advise? * ecommerce site wants to select a new database, compare RDBMS to NOSQL, * New product, social networking platform, opinion and sentiment data ... what solution *what is CICD *when met a foal and exceeded expectations, how did I do it, what were challenges *tell time I made a bad decision * snowflake instead of Redshift *tell about a time did not meet a promised timeline * time made an important decision, did I move forward or gather more information *tell about a time I sacrificed short term gain to add value int the long run * something significant I did outside my area of expertise * tell time dug deep to get to the root cause * top 3 data challenges, what are they? * ETL vs ELT etc *Many questions about ETL vendors

Most of the questions were based on my prior experience. Had 4 rounds of interviews: 1 with the recruiter + 1 with the hiring manager + 1 with a peer + final panel interview that included a presentation - General cloud concepts - Security - Authorization - Prior customer engagement experiences - Panel interview (I had 30 minutes to present. Make sure that the presentation is well structured. Define the problem, your approach to solving the problem, the options available, selected solution incl technical aspects and finally the impact. Stress on the business impact your solution has!
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Senior Architect

Interviewed at Salesforce

4
Jul 10, 2019

Most of the questions were based on my prior experience. Had 4 rounds of interviews: 1 with the recruiter + 1 with the hiring manager + 1 with a peer + final panel interview that included a presentation - General cloud concepts - Security - Authorization - Prior customer engagement experiences - Panel interview (I had 30 minutes to present. Make sure that the presentation is well structured. Define the problem, your approach to solving the problem, the options available, selected solution incl technical aspects and finally the impact. Stress on the business impact your solution has!

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