American Express Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Phoenix, AZPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a shorter interview where I was asked two LeetCode-style easy questions.

The technical difficulty itself wasn’t the big challenge, but the experience felt messy because the interviewer came late and seemed disorganized.

During my answers, they kept interrupting and shifting to random topics—Java garbage collection and runtime errors came up unexpectedly while I was still working through my explanation. Even though the questions were manageable, that interruption made it hard to stay focused and present my reasoning in a clean way.

I didn’t get an offer. The main thing that threw me off wasn’t the problem-solving—it was the lack of flow and the sense that the

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