Tech IndustryFeb 22, 2018

Hardest Technical Challenge With AWS Interview Question

Interviewers keep asking me what was the hardest technical challenge with AWS and I don’t have anything memorable I can think of. I’ve never built anything or know of applications that require scale greater than AWS can handle. Netflix and Instagram run perfectly fine on AWS. I also don’t find any problems that can’t be solved by stackoverflow and aws docs. Any suggestions on how I answer this question?

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Oracle Madmaxf Feb 22, 2018

Read netflix tech blog , they have good stories about nightmares with aws .

Capital One @@@@@-? OP Feb 22, 2018

Thank you! I forgot about that.

Microsoft hskf81 Feb 22, 2018

I had one recently which got pretty interesting while white boarding: Using AWS based services, please diagram a ‘YouTube’ like service. Keep in mind front end authentication, backend and video ingestion should all use ‘serverless’ components. I got the offer - was fun. Interesting to get this question, as I applied for ProServ about 5 or so years ago and had a similar question, albeit pre-serverless movement.

Amazon obWd68 Feb 22, 2018

Man I would love to see questions like these with answers to study from. Not just leetcode questions but architecture / design qs. I'd love to know what your answer was but I'm sure it's too much to type

Disney tralala Feb 22, 2018

There’s some great videos from YouTube on designing for scalability. I think Pinterest too. I can go find bookmarks - PM me if you want my to go look.

Microsoft richardhea Feb 22, 2018

Instagram runs on AWS?? 🍆

Capital One @@@@@-? OP Feb 22, 2018

Not anymore sorry, I meant it did run perfectly fine there lol. https://www.wired.com/2014/06/facebook-instagram/