Cant Tell you the questions [NDA signed] but prepare for System Designs and Architecture and prepare to go deep into the design. For example If you are asked to Design Twitter and you say that you will create a followers table which will tell the LB to redirect the request to the required REDIS cluster, then be prepared to be asked about the logic/ DS of the Followers table etc.
one case study
Not allowed to share due to NDA. Just go through your own resume and map everything to Leadership Principals
Focuses on process, approach and Amazon leadership principles
How would u design a system that would at real time bring in vendor data and keep displaying recommendations on the site?
mas most surprised by questions on how I would design a financial software architecture to resolve a specific issue - can't give more details for confidentiality reasons.
Design question Payments Compliance Engine AWS operates more than 245 countries and territories around the globe. Online payments data is highly regulated by compliance rules enforced by regulations differently in each country. Those regulation vary with different regulations which involves executing different set of processing in order to make payments compliant in certain countries and territories. Design end to end payments system which could be compliant with different local regulations. Compliance Rules : 1. Certain payment methods available only in EMEA regions. 2. AWS can only store payment method data short amount of time. 3. A country have a regulation to use only the cards issued in the country and block usage of other cards. Additional rules : 1. CVV cannot be stored and only available initial charges. 2. Customer needs to provide consent in order AWS to store data. 3. Re-occurring payments 4. End to end encryption.
Paying back to the community by listing questions not seen else where on Glassdoor. All LP questions are listed across multiple sites already. 1. System Design bookseller system like Goodreads, which shows Amazon book reviews on their site (login, registration were out of scope) book search, book details, reading reviews, adding reviews were in-scope 2. Cognitive ability in program management - How would you plan to move 100's of willing and unwilling internal users to a new version of your service. (took 15 mins with various cross questions) 3. Why my service not working ? (technical troubleshooting) (took about 20 mins, went deep into routing algo, to load balancer configuration to identifying specific logs in DNS servers, authoritative name servers, root servers, server logs, LB logs, VIPs)
How did you put customer first approach and innovate?
How long would it take to prototype your web-based chat customer service system?
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