Amazon Web Services Solution Architect interview questions
based on 196 ratings - Updated Jun 24, 2026
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Solution Architect applicants have rated the interview process at Amazon Web Services with 4.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 68.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
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For all their talk of being the world's best employer and how forward-thinking they are, you'd be surprised how stuck in the past they are with rote memorization. Too much emphasis on just tech skills and not enough focus on a person's various other skills.
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Memorize their LPs and various tech stuff and you should be good to go. Especially the LPs.
I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Arlington, VA)
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Was okay. I interviewed for the solutions architect role - private equity team.
Interviewer didn’t ask any question within context of private equity or how solutions architect is applied in the private equity environment
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Amazon Web Services (Taipei) in Jan 2022
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I went through two rounds.
The first round was a preliminary technical knowledge check with an SA.
The second round was simulating customer requirements, creating a proposal, and conducting a whiteboard discussion on architecture selection and user considerations.
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The first round involved discussions on the technical foundations of security and networking, such as the scope of cybersecurity, the operation of the OSI seven layers, and the client/server process.
The second round focused on technical selection and solutions discussion based on the given scenario.
I messed up in the second round, so I didn’t move on to the next stage.