u/CryingBananas23

Hi everyone, so I recently made it to the final round for an L5 TAM role and have 5 interviews to prepare for. If anyone could help provide me some advice on these few things that would be amazing.

Scheduling: I’ve seen online that AWS interviews candidates at the same time so it would be better to schedule your interview earlier in your scheduling window than later. And the realistic times I have to schedule would give me 17 days to prepare or 24 days. I obviously want as much time as possible to prepare but is the extra week worth that risk?

1 or 2 days: Should I go for all interviews on the same day, split it across two?

STAR Stories: How many star stories should I come up with? I’ve seen online advice as low as 8 and as high as 25. I only have two years of work experience in consulting so coming up with anything more than 15 is a bit of a struggle. ALSO, my time in consulting has not been really technical so a lot of my stories are mostly to do with advisory and not troubleshooting like the role would want. Would that doc points off me? I would use technical stories from back in university but that was 3+ years ago

Technical interviews: From what I understood the technical breadth interview would be similar to the phone interview where they ask a wide range of fundamental questions on different domains. Is that correct?

As for the technical depth interview I was told by my interviewer in the previous round that they would select two domains for me to go in depth on, but how much depth would it actually get to? And they didn’t send me in the email what domains I would do, and how could I best prepare myself for that when I do find out?

Thanks in advance for any advice you guys are able to give!

So the other day I posted about how I'm looking for advice to prepare for my phone interview, where Ill be interviewing for the TAM position. But after finally deciding to mainly focus on the technical side of the interview since thats what I found it should be on, and saving the LPs for later I'm starting to have doubt if I can even succeed in the first place honestly.

I know TAMs are suppose to be generalists and whatnot, but whenever I do research on interviewing for the position I've seen quite often people saying "You should be an expert in at least 2 domains when interviewing with general knowledge in the rest." When in reality I feel like I can barely claim to have general knowledge in all the domains. My only real experience in AWS so far is how in the past year I decided to take initiative to teach myself AWS and complete certifications like Solutions Architect Associate, along with some side projects I worked on in my own time. But even then, when reviewing for all the potential topics I could be questioned on during the interview I cant help but get the feeling of being overwhelmed and that I could easily mess up.

I'm grateful for the opportunity that I made it to this stage, and I know if I didn't have a resume good enough I probably wouldn't have made it here anyways. But again, when I look at all the content I have to recall I cant shake the feeling of doubt at times. Especially with the fact I'm running out of time as I also need to start drafting my STAR stories as well. Am I overthinking this?

Hi everyone! I have a phone interview for the AWS TAM position in a couple weeks, and I want to try my best to be as prepared as possible for it. Does anyone have any advice on how I could best do so, as Ill be honest Ive tried compiling resources to prepare myself but was a bit overwhelmed with some of the conflicting information on what to prepare for. I'm aware it will predominantly be technical with some behavioural questions, but how should I prepare exactly for the interview as a whole and with what resources?