Principal Architect Interview Questions
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Principal Architect interview questions shared by candidates
Nothing noteworthy, Questions can range from AWS to DevOps pipeline, consultative approach to strategy. Their interviewers will be all over the technology and consultative map so be ready!!! Random and specific technologie questions are designed to eliminate, not include
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"Minor deficiencies in your skills will be the rationale to eliminate you!" - That's absolutely ridiculous, if the role was mostly sales and there was a proven record of generating revenue, why spend so much time energy and effort on a minor gap technically. If you were 95% there technically the balance can be remediated, it seems they're looking for the magic unicorn or wasting your time. You might have dodged a bullet if no one could qualify the billable hours & their talent people are not aligned with the decision makers Less
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Minor deficiencies in your skills will be the rationale to eliminate you!
Describe the limited resources on a mobile device.
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I listed as many of them as I could think of and forgot probably the most important one, which was the battery. Less
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Memory (RAM), Battery, Storage, Bandwidth, & Screen Size (assuming it has one). One could argue CPU as well, but that is less so these days, although a designer of a mobile device needs to balance all of these resources against battery life. Less
What are the Adapter, Decorator, Bridge, Builder, State Design Patterns?
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Was Not Sure of the Bridge, Builder Patterns - But Answered the Other Questions!
Create a project plan for a specified project
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Create the plan in Excel or Project. Present it via PowerPoint.
how to approach transforming a monolithic to microservices?
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- Align the team knowledge and management method: Microservices architectures require a high coordination of knowledge and skills and need organizations that allow this coordination. - Divide and conquer: Either split the presentation layer from the business logic and data access layers or extract a module from existing monolithic app. A strangler application is a good approach to start with. - Test, and try again: One of the benefits of microservices is it's easier for incremental improvement, building a CI/CD solution along with it will save you time for testing and perfect it. Less
Coding & Architecture Interviews. Lots of questions on cloud architecture (eventual consistence, resilient systems, etc).
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Answer them, coded on laptop.
3rd Round interview: Tell me from your experience... how would you handle/fix the problems faced at Shutterfly?
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Explain a situation where you have made improvements