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Cloud Solution Architect - AppDev Sydney Interview Experience - Sydney, Australia

November 1, 2019
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Video Conference - Informational: 30 minutes Video Conference - Technical: 1 Hour Onsite Behavioral: 2 hours

Overall, I believe I excelled in every single interview. I'd rate my performance as 110 out of 100 (based on my gut feeling).

However, in the last interview, the interviewer took a disappointing turn in the final 5 minutes. As detailed below:

  • The job description did not mention 'Azure' even once. My final question was whether this role involved O365 and Dynamics. The interviewer looked at me as if I'd said something foolish and asked, "Did you read the JD carefully? It says only Azure." I replied that the JD did not state 'Only Azure' at any point. It seems he himself had not read the JD thoroughly.
  • Furthermore, at no point in any interview was it mentioned that I would have to handle 150-200 clients. In the last minute of the final interview, he stated that I would have to manage 200 clients. I was shocked and asked, "So it's a tech support role?" He responded, "No, no, it's a Solution Architect role where you have to sell to customers." I then asked, "So it's a sales role?" The interviewer provided no satisfactory answers.

How can a Solution Architect possibly manage 150 to 200 clients?

It is a Sales + Customer Support role disguised with a fancy title "Cloud Solution Architect." It is not.

Regardless, I stopped following up with them as I was not interested in such a role. They contacted me after two weeks to say they had hired someone else.

Well, good luck to them.

Questions

Just defend your resume. You should know everything you did regarding Azure and why you did it.

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