Solutions Architect applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 63.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Common stages of the interview process at Amazon as a Solutions Architect according to 1 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 33%
Skills test: 33%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2016
Interview
Still going through the process. First took a short online tech screening with basic networking questions, TCP vs UDP, etc... Was contacted the next week to set up a phone screen, which was similar to the online screening but slightly more in depth. Asked about encryption, RAID, SQL/NoSQL, some others that I've forgotten, and a behavioral question designed around one of the leadership principles. Interviewer was a current Solutions Architect who spoke highly of their job and answered my questions in-depth. Contacted the next day to set up an in-person.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon (Dallas, TX) in Jan 2017
Interview
The interview process was very professional. They asked mostly about over all architecture approaches and challenges both AWS. The interviewers were very polite in explaining any clarifications I needed on the question at had. I would suggest always preparing about "scalability", "high availability" and security at all tiers. They also concentrated on examples of innovations I had done.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you provide high availability for a database deployed on an instance in the cloud?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Amazon in Feb 2017
Interview
Good and to the point. The interviewer explained what to expect. The questions were clear and to the point. I think the interviewer was not a native english speaker, so I had some trouble understanding some questions and had to ask to repeat the questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions on SQL vs NoSQL, Latency, Hyper-V, CIDR, OOP concepts, CDN's, Containers, Dos and DDos, IPS/IDS, RAID levels, SSD vs Regular Drive