Senior Solutions Architect Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts
Process
Round 1 - Call from the recruiter. Asking generic questions about skills and experience.
Round 2 - 1 week after the recruiter call, a phone screen was scheduled. It was full of technical questions related to AWS cloud, general networking, and security.
One week after I cleared the phone screen, I received an email that my loop had been scheduled.
Round 3 (Loop Round)
- 3 Leadership Principle-based interviews
- 2 Technical deep-dive interviews
Questions
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Difference between TCP & UDP.
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What is a DDoS attack? How to prevent it?
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What is a container? How is it different from Hyper-V?
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What is a microservice? What are its disadvantages?
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What is scaling?
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Difference between a list and a tuple.
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What is CIDR?
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How many IPs are in a /16 subnet?
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How to check all running processes in Linux?
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How to expand an EBS volume?
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How to secure data in AWS?
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What is TLS and how does it work?
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What is the difference between RDP and Blast protocols?
Mostly networking and compute-related questions.
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Amazon Work Experiences
- 5.0High Expectations, Sky's LimitSenior Solutions Architect • Current EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesMarch 2, 2020Pros: - Leadership principle in action. - Very innovative company! The sky is the limit. - No auto-pilot! - Super flexible. If you move to a different role, there you go, it's simple.Cons: - Expectations are high. - Super customer-focused and the ownership principle may be hard for some people.
- 2.0Solutions Architect - Amazon Web ServicesSenior Solutions Architect • Current EmployeeBoston, Massachusetts, United StatesDecember 22, 2018Pros: When I joined about three years ago, the stock was low. It went up 3x. Compensation-wise, I made good money; however, there is no work-life balance, and there is no appreciation. I did not get any raise in the last three years. Most worker bees – Sales Associates, Technical Account Managers, Software Development Engineers, and ProServe consultants – are nice people. I enjoyed working with such talented people, but managers and directors are ruining this company.Cons: I worked here for about three and a half years. The company was great when I joined. Now it's bad. Many useless managers play dirty politics to survive. Directors and senior leaders in our org could be replaced by rocks, and the company would still do better. They have no leadership skills. Andy Jassy and Jeff Bezos are good, but their values are not followed by these managers. Andy and Jeff have no time to motivate workers anymore. There is a push for female equality, but that just means promoting unqualified women to leadership positions. Long-term, this is against the cause of equality. This is not fair to hardworking and qualified men; we have families too. There are good female leaders, such as Teresa Carlson. She is the best and deserves to be the leader; she motivates and takes care of her people.
- 4.0Good Benefits, Toxic BossesSenior Solutions Architect • Former EmployeeBengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaJune 9, 2025Pros: Employee benefits are good in the company.Cons: Toxic managers, highly bureaucratic. Setup for failure if you don't involve in politics.
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