I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at American Express (Tempe, AZ) in Apr 2015
Interview
I got the email about the position through the university emails. I sent my resume to them and surprisingly after just 1 hour they sent me some timeslots to interview with them! They also provided me a conference call number along with a passcode to call them.
In the day of interview, there were basically three people, one of them was a leader and the others were data scientists at AMEX. They started with explaining their background and wanted me to talk about mine too. After that, they asked two technical and basic machine learning questions. Questions were average and I solved the first one correctly and the second one almost correctly.
It seemed that they had already chosen their candidate at that time and I've heard this from one of my friends who had applied for the position before me and got the onsite interview while I hadn't had my interview yet! I don't know why they still interviewed me while they already knew their right candidate?? I would say this is absolutely not fair while I had a pile of related publications in my resume compared to my friend who didn't have any paper at all!
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
We have like million card members and along with their transactions. Also, we have 10k restaurants and 1k coupons to eat food. Give a method that can be used to pass along the coupons to the users given that some users have already got their coupons so far.
Given a training set of users with their demographic information, psychology test of their personality (openness to like pages or not) and the pages of FB they have liked so far, how could we predict the gender, age and other demographics of unseen data?
I interviewed at American Express (Gurgaon, Haryana)
Interview
It was a fair and structured interview, focusing on SQL, ML fundamentals (boosting, imbalance), and business cases like fraud detection. They prioritize logical thinking through puzzles and guesstimates over complex coding.
I interviewed at American Express (Gurgaon, Haryana)
Interview
It was based on machine learning and my projects..Puzzles guesstimates and case study were also tested on ..It was a campus placement so they heavily focused on statistics and rconometroc concepts ..Probability question etc