Principal architect Interview Questions

Minor deficiencies in your skills will be the rationale to eliminate you!

"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

Provided insights on how I had worked with the Cloud

Answer them, coded on laptop.

- 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.

Told real life experience stories about successes and challenges I’ve had and was honest about what I learned when I had challenges.

You can talk about a public VIF or EC2 host transitions or even some of the software products. Whatever way you are comfortable with should meet the question requirements.

Yes....but I'd prefer the support teams be American as they tend to be more creative, proactive and there's no language barrier to deal with.