American Express

Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience - New York, New York

September 1, 2016

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had an interview resulting from a school career fair. The interview consisted of some technical questions.

They asked me to write some simple code implementing classes. The questions focused mostly on OOP concepts.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the American Express Software Engineer (Internship) role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

40%

Pass Rate

American Express's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in New York, New York is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive100%

Neutral0%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for American Express's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in New York, New York.

American Express Interview Questions

Minimum Deletions to Make Character Frequencies Unique

Medium

Given a string, find the minimum number of characters you must delete so that all remaining character frequencies are unique. No two characters can have the same frequency.

ArraysGreedy Algorithms

Maximum Equal Frequency

Hard

Given an array of numbers, find the longest prefix where removing exactly one element makes all remaining element frequencies equal. Return the length of this prefix.

ArraysSliding WindowsGreedy Algorithms

Find a Value of a Mysterious Function Closest to Target

Hard

You're given a mysterious function and a target value. Find an input value to the function that produces an output closest to the target.

ArraysSliding WindowsBit Manipulation