American Express Software Engineer interview experience

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

I interviewed with American Express three separate times for three different teams, and I ended up with offers for two of the three.

The ones I was offered for felt mostly like technical and behavioral evaluation combined, including a coding question and behavioral discussion connected to how I work.

The team that didn’t offer me was different in how they assessed my thinking. I was asked to solve a riddle designed to see how I reasoned through the problem rather than focusing only on coding skills.

Even though the overall structure varied slightly across teams, the common thread was that they wanted both structured technical thinking and how I explain my approach. I ultimately declined and didn’t proceed because I

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