American Express Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

For the 2025 summer SWE internship in New York City, the interview lasted around an hour.

I was asked only two behavioral questions before the technical part kicked in.

Once the technical segment started, it began with a very easy problem, and then they added additional requirements to increase the complexity. That escalation happened twice, and the final iteration ended up being comparable to a simpler medium LeetCode challenge.

I felt like the interview was built to test how I handle growing constraints, not just whether I could solve a fixed problem. I received an offer, and what I liked most was how the difficulty ramped gradually while I was still able to reason through

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