Software Engineer Interview Experience - Phoenix, Arizona
Process
The interview process was challenging, but also enlightening as to many of the emerging technologies being used: Terraform, Sentinel, and migrations of Java Spring to Kotlin, and integration of microservices using Go.
The first interviews were coding tests and experience building. Others went into dozens of questions related to technology and languages.
Questions
Describe the different types of concurrency models in Go.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 41 interview experiences for the American Express Software Engineer role in Phoenix, Arizona.
Success Rate
American Express's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Phoenix, Arizona is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very good feelings for American Express's Software Engineer interview process in Phoenix, Arizona.
American Express Work Experiences
- 5.0A great company to start a career.Software Engineer • Current EmployeePhoenix, Arizona, United StatesJune 22, 2022Pros: Good culture. Nice. Don’t burn you out. Helpful.Cons: Pay is good enough to live with. Slow. Mature.
- 2.0Very restricted. No freedom.Software Engineer • Former EmployeePhoenix, Arizona, United StatesApril 15, 2020Pros: Some positions have good salaries. Good benefits. Lots of PTO.Cons: It's a nightmare being a developer here. All of their workstations are super restricted. I have to go through weeks of approval process to even install dev tools that are not on the approved list. Most websites are banned. Not a fun place to be for devs.
- 4.0Good wlbSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeePhoenix, AZNovember 9, 2025Pros: provide a good work life balanceCons: salary is not very competitive and really traditional company
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