[lostcolony]

Do you know what the CAP theorem is, and can explain it to me like I'm 5? Can you tell me how a SQL DB fits into it, and where something like DynamoDB fits into it?

Congratulations, you are better than 95% of the people that I've interviewed out there saying they are experienced building distributed systems. Including system/solution architects.

[cbsmith]

Sad, but true. That said... the hiring pool tends to be biased towards people that others have passed on.

[lostcolony]

Sure, but the OP was talking about their difficulty during interviews; I'm just saying, they're almost assuredly better than the majority of the rest of the hiring pool. The company has an opening they need filled; they can only fill it with people from the hiring pool, not those who aren't in the hiring pool.