Amazon Architecte Solution interview questions

A very stupid interview process. After telling that I am a data scientist and not a solutions architect, the head of that AWS team still wanted to interview me. After passing the first 90 minute round I was in a round called the loop. It was mostly behavioral questions with a couple of technical fact questions thrown here and there. The questions for my final project were pretty stupid and showed a lack of understanding of my whole presentation. I presented a price optimization architecture and there was a very limited understanding of the whole business aspect of it on the team. Also, while the team had data science professionals, everyone has a different background in this field if they haven’t majored in it. To ask random questions based on your experience makes no sense. Look at my projects online and ask me questions on that if you are interested, I am not here to study all of data science and teach it to you for an interview. This is what they wanted, someone who had memorized a bunch of facts about ds/solutions that they could spit out. To be honest, their whole loop process and final presentation is about seeing who presents what and “stealing project ideas”. This is fine, but it is cumbersome. If they just want to steal ideas they can ask it from me in an earlier stage without bothering me for six hours. I have never cared about sharing ideas with less competent people as it makes the world better anyways. But six hours 😂

Most terrible and unorganized interview process. The interview process is over 8 hours and they made me sit through that two times plus two screening of 1 hour each. This is my recent experince. Earlier few years ago they asked me to arrange for a hotel and flight for on site interview and in the middle of airplane line they called me and asked me to go back because they hired someone else. This time I interviewed with a team first. Their judgement was I met their leadership standards very well but my coding was a bit below. So they send me to another team witn less coding. Second team feedback was I was not good at leadership at all while I was asked the same questions.They just contradicted the first team. (questions were identical) In the interview you talk to so many people and hardly one of them is from the same team you are interviewing for. In my case I was interviewing for solution architect at aws but most people were from warehouse section. So good luck with communicating technical achievements and what value you added to a problem when talking to prople who doesnt have any knowledge clue or relavance to AWS services. The process is so boring, physically exhausting and repetative that unless you are marathon athlete you cant physically make it. You have to sit upright for 8 hours answering repetitive questions. In my case they asked the same thing 3 times. Maybe this torture is part of their test and intentional. I have back problem and migrane and dizziness problem that get triggered when my blood sugar drops. So I used a small chocolate during that 8 hours. Based on some hints in their feedback the true and original reason they rejected me was that small chocolate. So if you ready to join a company that lacks that much understanding that you need something to grab to maintain blood sugar and reject you like that after two months of hard work and preparation, go for it. Im almost 40 years old and I really dont understand what they can gain with these behavioral questions. Some people were seniors and I respect their opinion but how come 20 years old person who just started working can analyse your answers from psychology perspective. If you want to pass you should lie thats whats they are looking for, very shiny polished flawless answers. They are even companies who charge you 10000$ to teach you what to tell them and they have spcific track for AWS thats the world we are living in. I used real examples that really happened to me and I was awarded in my company for going above and beyond. Obviously thats not enough. how many good examples of conflicts(something thats worth mentioning) you could give? 1,2,3. No you need much more than that which is not likely unless you lie. And who is judging you? Someone who just started their career which in their view is qualified. They are all psychology experts!!!