American Express interview notes, page 1 of 2

“I gave the textbook answer about PMs owning strategy and POs managing the backlog and working closer with engineering.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at American Express, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The tricky part isn't writing code, it's resisting the urge to rewrite things.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at American Express, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is a big open-ended one and I think I frontloaded too much time on chunking strategy and not enough on the access control piece, which came up later as a follow-up and I was a bit scrambled.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at American Express, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This was a lot to unpack in one question.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at American Express, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard opener.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at American Express, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight into features and kind of skipped the problem framing, which I regretted about two minutes in.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at American Express, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the general idea but stumbled trying to explain bootstrapping precisely.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at American Express, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic question but I always fumble it a little.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at American Express, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This question is deceptively wide.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at American Express, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I explained direct as a user crafting malicious input themselves vs indirect as the attack arriving through retrieved content or tool output.” The rest of the author's notes on AI Engineer interview at American Express, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.