Hi all - how much time would it take you to prep for an L4 SA position at AWS? Not sure how technical to expect, and want to put in the necessary work to do well #interview
I prepared a 30 page technical document for the phone interview which helped a lot. Every question they asked was in my document. I easily cleared the phone interview. For on-site, I had 6 rounds including a presentation. 5 of them were 100% behavioral questions. One was basically a systems design round - "Design amazon.com". This was with the bar raiser. I got rejected. I spent about a month preparing. Granted, I was in "interview mode" so I had been preparing for interviews for a bit, but dedicated one month exclusively to the AWS interview. (coming up with all my stories for the LP questions etc..)
My phone screen was 100% technical. Loop: 5 interviews, first one was technical (design a stocks app), the rest was behavioral. My advice: read all LP, prepare at least 2 stories for each LP (bear in mind some stories might include multiple LP) I interviewed for a L6 but got L5 offer, it was like 60% more than my current compensation so I took it.
Agree - 2/3 weeks should be enough. Since 70% is behavioural, make sure to drill through your LP answers so that they become second nature.
With the 2/3 stories per LP, how do you prepare for the various questions that can fall under each one? Did you use examples from online? Or just memorize the details so well that you could adapt to any kind of question? Or both, lol?
As a rule of thumb: create a cheat sheet with prompts and a separate column for key results. Other details you should remember - ie who/what/when and how it relates to the question. Otherwise, it will come across as a made up story. Feel free to DM if you need something more in-depth.
Iāve been gunning for an SA position for some time but canāt seem to get an interview! Would anyone be willing to help out or offer any advice?
so Solutions Architect (SA?) is not a technical role? what do they do within AWS?
It's definitely a technical role but there's a large pre-sales/customer facing element to it as well. But all of the SA's I know come from strong technical backgrounds.
Tbh I got asked several technical questions, more than 20, during one of my final rounds. They typically want to know if you understand ALL of the stuff in a high overview. My friend who interviewed for L4 SA got asked a coding question. It is a technical role, but they want you to know how to talk/sell the product, not just blankly code
I have a 75 min online assessment coming up for this SA L4 role. Not sure what to expect!
Hey @Oracle, how was your process beforehand? Did you have a screening with the recruiter or directly with a current SA?
just applied to this role and recruiter sent me the next steps. OA is the first one!
They changed the process to online assessment I believe.
I didnāt even know they hired L4 SAs. Not usually a role suited for an L4 level but good luck.
2weeks - for 70 % behavioral and 30% technical. For SA they only ask technical questions in phone interview. Onsite loop is mostly behavioral.
Gotcha. Did you have an online assessment?
No, I didnāt.