American Airlines Software Engineer interview experience

After an earlier step, I hit a round where the interviewer pushed hard on system design and scalability—how I would build something that stayed maintainable as it grew. Alongside that, they also asked about clean code principles in Java and what it looks like to keep the structure understandable when the requirements get real.

During the same stage, I had to work through a scenario that involved planning a meeting to satisfy a set of requirements, and the questions felt dense and time-sensitive. One detail that threw me off was when the interviewers themselves stayed deliberately hands-off