I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at American Express (London, England) in May 2024
Interview
It has been a great pleasure working with amex, Interview process is very good and they checked indepth knowledge on Kafka, golang and microservices, design architecture. Work preasure is very less but if you dont perform as expected then you end up with layoff, so make sure your work should be visible to your director.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Kafka architecture
Golang goroutines and channels, and mutexes, sync, context packages
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at American Express
Interview
Had went through a referral via a current Amex employee. Did the entire loop 5 round (1 HM, 2 Dev, and 2 offshore Devs) and eventually I figured it was decided to promote someone from within the team. Moreover had another Senior engineer round and position just closed the day after I finished my interview round. Most of these interview are just a pipeline process or a backfill positions for assessment, many a times this is just perm application process where interviews are aligned but no actual hires or offers are made to the candidate, eventhough you are confident of your interviews. The feedback from the recruiters are just generic ones suggesting you to keep trying for other position which is not at all helpful.
Was pretty straight forward. Come on as a contractor initially. Then transitioned after two years. More of an on the job interview. The move to employee was seamless, same job, same leader.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How did you handle a new project that no one in the department knew nothing about?
I interviewed at American Express (London, England)
Interview
An online test with multiple choice questions and a largeish coding problem. Coding problem is similar to the one found on codeleet and might not reflect reality / real skills application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: Describe the difference between pointer of type and value of type
Q: Predict output result of the func