Courses Solutions Architect Interview Prep

Solutions Architect Interview Prep

Land your dream solutions architect job at Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, and other top companies. Learn from mock interviews, frameworks, and advice from senior candidates. Practice system design principles and leadership skills to ace your interviews.

Taught by 10+ Engineering Leaders at Amazon, Google, and more

Muhammad Hussein Solutions Architect, Dropbox

Pulkit MathurSenior Solutions Architect, Salesforce

Saurabh ShrivastavaHead of Solutions Architecture, AWS

Greg YeutterSenior Solutions Engineer, Segment

Ilyas BakouchSolutions Architect, YouTube, SSENSE

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What you'll find in these courses

6 courses

25 hours

Solutions Architect Interview Introduction

8 lessons

6 videos

Here's our introduction of how to tackle the Solutions Architect interview.

Welcome to the Solutions Architect Interview Course

What Is a Solutions Architect?

A Sr. SA at AWS Shares His Experience

The Solutions Architect Interview Loop

How to Get a Solutions Architect Job (with AWS Solutions Architect)

Customer Interaction Interviews

12 lessons

7 videos

Ace your SA interviews with this customer interaction course! Written by a Senior Solutions Architect @ Salesforce, you'll learn frameworks for acing discovery, demos, and objection handling, both in interviews and on-the-job.

Intro to Customer Interaction InterviewsFree

Discovery Interviews

Demo Interviews

Handling Customer Objections

Customer Interaction Interview Tips

Technical Questions for Solutions Architects

7 lessons

In this course, you'll prepare for technical questions you're likely to get as an Solutions Architect. You'll review key cloud architecture concepts as they apply in the real world, practice choosing APIs, designing database schemas and more, through interview answers written by senior solutions architects.

Intro to Technical SA QuestionsFree

Cloud Fundamentals for Solutions Architects

Evaluating REST APIs for a Snack Distributor

Determine the Database Schema for a Pizza Ordering System

Design an Architecture for a Self-Serve Insurance Product

System Design Interviews

10 modules

51 lessons

33 videos

Learn how to answer system design questions with in-depth video examples and lessons that teach the fundamental concepts of scalable systems. Put your knowledge to the test with our self-guided exercises, or watch how engineers and managers answer these questions themselves.

Introduction to the System Design InterviewFree

How to Answer System Design Interview Questions

System Design Principles

Rubric for System Design Interviews

System Design Glossary

Top Engineering Blogs

Web Protocol Questions

Asynchronous Processing

Caching

Encryption

Authentication and Authorization

Cloud Architecture

CDNs

Design Facebook MessengerFree

Design a Metrics and Logging Service

Design Dropbox

Design App that Downloads User Data

Design an Application Performance Monitoring System

Design a Parking Garage

Design the Payment System for the Amazon Kindle

Design a Hotel Booking Service

Design Zillow

Design a Vending Machine

Design Ticketmaster

Design a Key Value Store

Design a Rate Limiter

Design a Distributed Message Queue

Design a URL Shortener

Design Typeahead for Search Box

Design a Distributed LRU Cache

Behavioral Interviews for Solutions Architects

11 lessons

8 videos

This course will teach you to answer experiential, hypothetical, and presentation interview questions with ease.

Behavioral Questions for Solutions ArchitectsFree

Building Your Solutions Architect Story Bank

Using the STAR Framework

Solving a Complex Problem For a Customer

Tell Me about a Challenge You Faced Working with Sales

Interview Tips & Frameworks

2 modules

9 lessons

9 videos

All great product people know how to empathize and relate to users. These questions test for a candidate's user empathy and insight abilities.

How to Pause

Discussing Tradeoffs

How To Check In With Interviewers

Acing Phone Interviews

How To Get Unstuck

What To Do Before an Interview

Using the WhiteboardFree

Framework: Broad Then Deep

Framework: The Triangle Method

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Access all our company interview guides We'll walk you step-by-step through every part of the interview process, from the recruiting phone screen through the technical screen.

Join our members-only Slack community Connect with your peers in our 25,000-member strong Slack community. Ask questions, practice interviews, and make connections at top tech companies.

Mock interviews with AI and peers Practice real interview questions with unlimited mock interviews, including early access to our new AI interviewer.

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Full access to our PM interview course and 100+ other interview prep courses and modules.

Hundreds of real PM interview questions, answers, and walkthroughs

Self-paced video lessons with expert interview answer frameworks

Access to PM interview rubrics and sample answers for common interview types

Unlimited access to peer-to-peer mock interviews for product sense, behavioral, and more.

Access to AI tools for mock interview feedback

A complete library of company-specific PM interview guides

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