American Express Data Scientist interview experience

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IndiaPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey started with a heavy focus on my background.

In the first round, I got grilled on my resume—projects and internship work—and I had to defend what I did and why I made the choices I did.

The second round was more hands-on and included coding along with HR conversations. I also had feature-extraction style tasks followed up with a guestimate, which made the round feel like a mix of practical technical thinking and quick reasoning under ambiguity.

Overall the difficulty was around medium, and it felt like they were trying to connect my stated experience to the kinds of tasks they needed to see me handle. I didn’t end up getting an offer,

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