Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect interview experience

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Arlington, VAPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a pretty intense AWS loop after an online assessment.

Once I cleared the initial screen, I hit four rounds back-to-back: a technical breadth + leadership principles round, then behavioral mixed with a presentation, followed by a bar-raiser style leadership principles round with more LP focus, and finally a technical depth round paired again with leadership principles questions. The whole cadence felt designed to keep momentum—no real time to regroup between interviews.

What stood out was how hard the leadership principles were hammered. I had to tell a tight set of stories where each one mapped cleanly to principles, and I was expected to back

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