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American Express Interview Experiences
Overview
Section titled “Overview”These American Express interview notes are rewritten from public student posts and prep-site summaries. Your panel can still look different.
Usual flow: Online assessment → Technical interviews → HR
What technical rounds look like
Section titled “What technical rounds look like”DSA, SQL, projects; risk/payments context helpful.
What HR rounds look like
Section titled “What HR rounds look like”Behavioral fit.
What students reported
Section titled “What students reported”- Codility is the recurring surprise. Nearly every write-up describes a ~90-minute Codility round with 3 medium-to-hard problems (bit manipulation, array traversal, binary search show up repeatedly). Candidates consistently flag that roughly 80% of test cases are hidden - you see only 2-3 during submission - so you cannot iterate your way to a pass. The common advice is to get at least two questions fully correct with edge cases handled rather than partially attempt all three.
- Technical rounds are fundamentals-plus-project, not LeetCode-hard. Reported topics cluster around OOP (polymorphism, inheritance, overloading vs overriding, access specifiers), C vs C++ and class vs struct, exception handling, and databases - primary/foreign keys, joins, indexing, ACID, locking. Coding asks inside the interview tend to be light (find duplicates in an array, swap without a temp variable). Expect a detailed “why this database / why this stack” cross-examination on your project.
- The final round is an engineering manager, and it is half behavioural. Multiple candidates describe a 45-60 minute closing round that walks through the architecture of one resume project (frontend-to-backend flow, auth, JWT, REST) and then pivots to strengths/weaknesses, team conflict, and motivation for Amex. One write-up notes being asked what positive impact they wanted to have on society - the tone is conversational and personality-weighted.
- Shortlists are small. Reported on-campus funnels include ~30 students clearing the Codility round with 9 eventually receiving full-time offers, and another drive where 4 of 10 reached the final round. A 7.0 CGPA cutoff appears in at least one on-campus post.
Sources
Section titled “Sources”- American Express Interview Experience for Software Engineer Internship + FTE (On-Campus) - GeeksforGeeks (student write-up)
- American Express Interview Experience for GET - GeeksforGeeks (student write-up)
- American Express Interview Experience for Graduate Engineer Trainee - GeeksforGeeks (student write-up)
- American Express Interview Experience (On-Campus) - GeeksforGeeks (student write-up)
- American Express careers (official)
These notes come from public reports and can differ by campus, year, and role. If your college placement email or the official careers/notification PDF says something different, follow that.
Related
Section titled “Related”HR interview
Section titled “HR interview”After technical rounds, American Express usually closes with a short HR / hiring-manager conversation: motivation, location, notice period, and a couple of behavioural stories. Prepare those answers on the dedicated page rather than cramming them into this hub.
Similar companies
Section titled “Similar companies”Mastercard · Visa · Capital One · PayPal · Barclays