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Title pretty much sums it all. A recruiter reached out to me for an L6 Sr industry value specialist role within cloud economics.
I'm fairly confident about my industry expertise however I don't necessarily work in the cloud space. My line of work often touches cloud projects, but that's not the chunk of what I do and as a result I don't have technical expertise to understand in depth details of cloud infrastructure.
In the recruiter screen, the recruiter kept telling me to emphasize my industry expertise however, when I got the prep notes, it talked a lot about knowing cloud technicalities.
I have the phone screen with the hiring manager coming up, and I've been told it's more of a functional interview. I've read up on the LP's and understand how the general loop structure works, but none of that would be relevant if I can't clear the phone screen.
Just curious if anyone is familiar with a similar role, and if they know how in depth your technical expertise must be to make it past the phone screen. Also, if the questions are functional or technical in nature, do they still need to allude to leadership principles to be considered successful answer? TIA!!!
Hi, I know there are quite a few posts here asking something similar but I’m at a bit of a loss. Is there a big difference between the SDE interview process at AWS vs Amazon? From what I’ve gathered AWS’ process looks something like this:
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phone screen
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phone interview
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virtual 5-6x interviews
Is there no online assessment prior to the phone screen like an Amazon interview?
The position I’d like to apply for is a Front End Developer role. What kind of prep would I need for each of those stages? Will I be asked about practical front end knowledge? Data structures/algorithm/leetcode style knowledge? Is there a bare minimum I should know architecture wise (I don’t have AWS experience but could at least learn some of the basics of how it fits in)?
Aside that I’ve reviewed the leadership principles/STAR and prepped answers regarding my experiences through that lens.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and potentially providing me feedback.