What level is this for? SA or S r/Principal ? In any case if you know most of this you should be ok for the - https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer SA loop is a ton of system design at scale in the cloud (any cloud) More on reddit.com

Congratulations! I have worked with ASA's, SA's and senior SA's from AWS as part of my job. You should expect the bread and butter solutions architect questions like "whiteboard me a three tier app" and then expect optimization questions like "how would you control costs in this section of the architecture you drew out" (ASG's, CloudWatch alerts). The more experienced answer would include Technology Partner vendors, for example, you might push back on the interviewer and say, "well it depends on the client, if they're multicloud and are already on StackDriver, I might use their existing StackDriver implementation to trigger alerts for their AWS resources since StackDriver has native integration with AWS despite being a GCP product" -- or something else along the lines of "Before committing the customer to this architecture I'd want to have a discussion with them about their refactoring strategy for 2020 and see if they want to get away from traditional EC2's, and if not, then see if they're open to things like Spot instances or (formerly) Reserved Instance pricing. I'd get in touch with a Partner Development Manager to see if we could leverage a system integration partner of AWS depending on the environment complexity and/or spend that the customer expects to have with AWS." Either way, best of luck. It's an honor to be interviewing with AWS for an Associate Solutions Architect or SA Intern role. Good luck! More on reddit.com

I applied for an AWS Solutions Architect jobs a few years ago, long before I have the AWS exp that I do now. Some of the things they'll ask you are if you know the AWS services, and if you do, they'll deep dive on it. They'll ask about networking concepts, DNS, compute, storage and cloud concepts to get a general sense of which vertical you may be strong in.

Be honest if you don't have AWS exp, but express interest in learning about cloud tech if you do want to go into that area.

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Hello from the future. I’ve had multiple people dm me about my interview process for this role because of this post. So I’ll be leaving some FAQ below: Q: What interview questions did they ask? A: 80% of the interview was asking very probing and deep questions about my personal projects and why I made the design choices that I did. The other 20% was behavioral/LP questions and questions about why I wanted to be an SA. So yeah, focus on your personal projects because I’ve had multiple other SA interviewees confirm that the interview went HARD on your projects Q: Technical questions? A: These questions were more in relation to your projects than what you would typically expect and prepare for. You are NOT going to do a leetcode type question, but will get ask about algorithms if your projects used one and explain why. Q: Is there another interview? A: No. Q: When did you hear back? A: 5 business days. Q: What is the pay? A: For summer 22, I have a monthly salary of ~$8600 a month, which equates to around $50 an hour. This is for the Bay Area and may be different for you so don’t take that number at face value. Q: Housing stipend? A: Yes, for Bay Area, NYC, and Seattle, it is $2400 a month. Everywhere else is $1900 a month Again, remember to focus on your personal projects while prepping and you’ll be ok. If you have more questions please DM me. Good luck! More on reddit.com