American Express Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

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Jersey City, NJPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My technical interview was challenging and took about an hour.

It started with basic questions about Java and then expanded into Java Spring Boot and microservices. After that, the interview moved into three coding problems total: two centered on the Java backend and one on the React frontend.

Everything was done using an online compiler, so I spent most of the time writing and validating code live. The difficulty felt on the harder end for me because it wasn’t just one language or one problem type—it blended backend and frontend expectations in the same session.

I didn’t get an offer. Still, the structure was clear and there weren’t any annoying

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