Amazon / AWS interviews
Amazon / AWS interviewsSDE III candidate guidance + named engineering accounts
Start with the contract
“Your interviewer will ask questions related to your design, and you should ask questions to complete and validate your design.”
AmazonSDE III candidate guidance
Design the missing zone
“the servers in the remaining Availability Zones could carry the load.”
Mike FurrAuthor, Amazon Builders’ Library
“VMs that are already running need to keep working.”
Zak van der MerweEC2 and DSQL control-plane engineer, AWS
Own the uncertain outcome
“A timeout or failure doesn't necessarily mean that side effects haven't happened.”
Marc BrookerAuthor, Amazon Builders’ Library
“retry at a single point in the stack.”
Marc BrookerAuthor, Amazon Builders’ Library
Keep architecture judgment
“When code is cheap, the bottleneck moves to judgment”
Zak van der MerweEC2 and DSQL control-plane engineer, AWS
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