American Express Software Engineer interview experience

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

My interview was challenging but also oddly informative because it reflected the kinds of technologies the team seemed to use.

The early parts involved coding tests and prompts tied to my experience building things, and then the rest of the process leaned very heavily toward deep technical questioning.

The discussion went beyond broad fundamentals and into lots of questions about specific tools and languages and how they fit together. They also focused on emerging areas like Terraform, migrations from Java Spring to Kotlin, and integrating microservices with Go, plus more general technology depth.

Overall, it felt difficult and more intense than I expected in terms of how many technical questions I had to handle. I

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