The process took 1 week. I interviewed at American Express (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Nov 2023
Interview
Off Campus, Two Rounds, Both Rounds happened within a week. Second round will be with the director. First round was around 45minutes plus, then there was second round was mainly discussion, with a case study and a puzzle.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1st round: 1. Basic SQL join, 2. Lambda function in python, 3. Difference between a bank and companies like Mastercard, Visa. 4. What happens when you transact using a credit card? 5.Algorithms used in past? 6. CV based questions? 7. How you detect outliers? 8. Puzzle of an insect eating leaf with quantity getting doubled. 9. What factors affect CIBIL score? 10. How you deal with missing data? 11. What will happen if apply regression algorithm to a classification problem?
2nd round: 1.CV based, 2Case Study. 3. 1 puzzle
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at American Express (Bengaluru) in Jun 2022
Interview
First there was a phone screening where the opportunity was discussed, then had the first interview round in which past work experience was discussed and then a case study was given on how to increase revenue by marketing campaigns. After the first round was contacted for next round which was a Technical/fitment round in which questions were asked like how Amex makes money and then there were technical questions on what metric should be used in optimising ml models to capture fraud.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Questions were asked on sql joins. Tell the difference between precision and recall and which metric should be used to optimise ml fraud models.