Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect interview experience

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Cape TownPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a tougher, multi-stage loop where the format blended “assessment first” with a sequence of interviews that kept escalating.

I started with a game-based behavioral assessment, then moved into a recruiter-led screen. After that came a four-interview stretch: a technical deep dive covering networking, storage, and compute; a leadership principles round; then another technical interview; and finally a presentation/demo where I had to walk through a technical solution I built.

What made it feel difficult wasn’t just the topics—it was how directly they tested whether I could communicate like a Solutions Architect, not only solve like an engineer. The leadership-principles portion pushed me to ground my stories in how I

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