I applied through college or university. I interviewed at American Express in Mar 2018
Interview
The first phone interview was completely technical and involved the interviewer asking many questions on software engineering principles. These seemed to all be definition based, straight from a textbook. This is probably because of the New Grad nature of the job. There was supposed to be a coding portion of the interview, but my interviewer skipped it because he only knew Java and I didn't. It seemed that he didn't even read my resume to realize that I didn't know Java, HTML, PHP, React because he asked me questions on all of these and was surprised when I told him I didn't have experience in them, even though it never stated in the job description that these skills were desired. I did not make it through this first interview, and I believe it is because my interviewer could not adequately measure my experience due to this "programming language barrier" and both of us not knowing the in's and out's of the other's programming language preferences.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the 4 principles of object-oriented programming?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at American Express in Nov 2022
Interview
It was all online. There was a 30 minute behavioral interview followed by a 45 minute technical interview. They were conducted by 2 separate interviewers with a 30 minute break in between. The technical interview consisted of 2 coding questions. Overall interview process was very smooth, the interviewers were friendly and very enthusiastic about working for Amex.
got an online assessment after attending a career fair, then did two interviews one behavioral one technical about the online assessment. overall the interview went well and received an offer the following week
I applied online. I interviewed at American Express (New York, NY) in Oct 2020
Interview
after the Online Assessment one phone interview with recruiter and two video interview back to back with engineers. Relatively easy and not too technical at least compared to tech companies.
Software Engineer New Grad applicants have rated the interview process at American Express with 2.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 61.7% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer New Grad roles take an average of 33 days to get hired, when considering 5 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at American Express overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at American Express as a Software Engineer New Grad according to 5 Glassdoor interviews include:
Presentation: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
One on one interview: 25%
Personality test: 13%
IQ intelligence test: 13%
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