American Airlines Software Engineer interview experience

I was an external candidate, and American Airlines flew me out for an in-person session. The whole interview took a little over an hour, and it was mostly a walkthrough of my background—why I fit, what I’d done before, and how my experience matched the skills the role needed. Since I didn’t have any airline industry experience, I expected that to be a bigger focus, but the conversation stayed anchored on my resume and what I could do.

They did include a coding skills check, but it was pretty lightweight compared to what I’d seen elsewhere. They showed me a short clip of code and asked what