American Express Software Engineer interview experience

First there was a recruiter screen, then a technical round with two LeetCode-medium DSA problems plus a live build around a Spring Boot app. They also covered practical backend topics like Hibernate, join behavior, and design principles like SOLID, and they touched messaging/streaming with Kafka.

After that came an architecture-focused conversation with the hiring manager. That round was less about line-by-line coding and more about explaining how I’d build systems end to end: architecture choices, deployment considerations, and how I’d think about testing. I also got a domain-specific