Motivation for Google and Solutions Architect Role Questions
Candidates articulate their motivation for applying to Google and specifically the Solutions Architect role, demonstrating an understanding of Google's culture, values, product ecosystem, and customer-centric technical leadership expectations, and explaining how their background, skills, and career goals align with the role and the company.
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A customer asks you to design a federated identity strategy across multiple cloud providers and on-prem systems with strict audit trails. Detail an architecture using Google Cloud Identity (or equivalent), specify the protocols (SAML, OIDC), token lifetimes, trust boundaries, audit logging strategy, and how you would detect and respond to anomalous authentication patterns.
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Design a high-level 90-day onboarding plan for a new Solutions Architect joining Google's sales organization. Include technical ramp, field engagement milestones, product knowledge goals, sales collaboration activities, and cultural integration checkpoints.
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Describe Google's product ecosystem relevant to a Solutions Architect: include GCP, Google Workspace, ChromeOS/Endpoint, APIs, and at least one ML offering. Pick three products/services and explain, at a high level, when you would recommend each to an enterprise customer, the typical customer problem it solves, and one risk to watch for when recommending it.
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Provide an example from your past work where you had to learn a new Google product or cloud service quickly to win a deal or deliver a solution. Describe the steps you took to learn it (resources, experiments, stakeholders), artifacts you delivered (demo, POC), and the outcome for the customer and the business.
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Summarize in two or three sentences how Google’s cloud-first enterprise strategy (GCP) creates opportunities for Solutions Architects. Mention at least one enterprise challenge (e.g., analytics scale, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance) you can address using GCP and one limitation customers should be aware of and how you'd mitigate it.
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