American Express Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Sunrise, FLPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Even though the role title I applied for was React Engineer, the start of the interview quickly established the baseline.

The first 20 to 30 minutes were a mix of React questions and general coding practices—topics like hooks, the difference between class and functional components, and how I thought about code reviews.

After that, the coding portion was surprisingly simple: fetching an object from an API and displaying it on screen. The real catch was that they asked me to implement tests, so I had to shift from building the UI behavior to thinking about how to verify it.

The overall experience didn’t feel extremely hard, but it was still specific and practical. I didn’t end up with an offer, and what I took

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