Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at American Express as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Travel Consultant and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Travel Consultant and roles were rated as the easiest.
Pure Technical interview. Mostly technical questions, not a lot of get to know you questions, Felt very much like a test with questions fired for about 1 hour. All Java related at least for this position.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at American Express (London, England) in Nov 2024
Interview
The process consisted of five 30-minute interviews over two months, with the last two being with team members (who I got along with really well).
Before the final interview, I asked what to expect so I could prepare. I was told, "Nothing to prepare, we just need to account for some more interview time." Then, I was ghosted for two weeks.
It wasn’t due to a bad impression—the final interviewer even added me on LinkedIn. In hindsight, it felt like I was kept as a backup candidate while they waited for someone else to accept the offer.
Eventually, I received the same generic rejection email that’s sent to candidates who never even made it to the first interview. They provided no explanation for their decision until I repeatedly followed up. Even then, it was only after multiple emails that they finally got back to me explaining the situation. This is not how I expect the company to treat someone who makes it to the final stages of the interview process.
Extremely disappointing experience overall.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
tell me the difference between RAG, Training, and prompting. (it was for a genAI role)
I applied online. I interviewed at American Express (New York, NY)
Interview
All behavioral, not that difficult, The interviewers were nice, except took ages to get back when got rejected which was frustrating as they said one week and it was not. Two first round interviews and two second