PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services network.
4 Rounds
~21 Days
Medium
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a secure, multi-region active-active cloud architecture for a financial services client with strict data residency requirements.
#High Availability
#Disaster Recovery
#Compliance
#Networking
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
A client wants to migrate a legacy monolithic application to a microservices architecture on Kubernetes. Walk me through your migration strategy.
#Migration
#Microservices
#Kubernetes
#Strangler Fig Pattern
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy for a mission-critical database with an RPO of 5 minutes and an RTO of 1 hour.
#Disaster Recovery
#Databases
#RPO/RTO
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design a centralized logging and monitoring solution for a multi-account AWS environment using cloud-native tools.
#Observability
#Logging
#Multi-Account Strategy
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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medium
A retail client expects a 10x traffic spike during Black Friday. How do you design their cloud infrastructure to handle this elastically?
#Scalability
#Auto-scaling
#Performance
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a serverless data ingestion pipeline that processes millions of IoT sensor events per minute and stores them for analytics.
#Serverless
#Data Engineering
#Streaming
Cloud Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a secure 'Landing Zone' architecture for a healthcare client that complies with HIPAA regulations.
#Landing Zone
#Security
#Compliance
#Healthcare
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