American Express Management Trainee Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Topics to prepare for American Express Management Trainee interview:

• Credit card economics
• Econometrics
• Statistics

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Please read about the business model of amex, closed loop model and credit card economics. Knowledge of coding is not compulsory but be thorough with the projects mentioned in your CV.

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: It was mainly based on my resume. He asked every minute detail of my summer project.
Tips: Be prepared. Make sure you know everything you mentioned in your resume even if it is a simple POR in your first year.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: It was more of an interactive round. The interviewer was very helpful. We just need to grasp his hints and extend the discussion.
Tips: Speak your thoughts out. Listen to the interviewer carefully. Most of the times we just need to follow his thought direction.

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: This a typical HR round with one playing the good cop and the other one playing the bad cop. Most of the questions were just to check how we would react under pressure.
Tips: Don't get nervous and answer the questions straight to the point.

College Name: IIT Kharagpur

Round: Test
Experience: Some maths questions, puzzles, aptitude and verbal ability.
Duration: 30 minutes
Total Questions: 20

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: It was mostly technical interview

College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Shortlist for test was done using CG criteria.

But even if you do very well in test. They will still consider resume for the interview shortlist. So include points relevant to the profile in resume.
Tips: Having machine learning or data analytics related points on resume is a big plus.

Round: Test
Experience: Very basic level Quant, Probab, logical reasoning and vocabulary questions.
Tips: Since the questions were very basic level, solving all questions is very important.
Duration: 45 minutes
Total Questions: 20

Skills: Problem Solving Abilties
College Name: IIT Madras

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: They asked two puzzles. I could answer both
Tips: Prepare puzzles

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Just spoke freely
Tips: Try to maintain conversations

College Name: Iit madras

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Resume fitting for a data analysis profile are shortlisted. So writing R, Python and programming skills in the cv should help you getting shortlisted.
Almost 200 students were shortlisted for the test
Tips: Make sure you mention your courses or projects related to data analysis in the resume

Round: Test
Experience: The test was on mettl.com
It was a very easy test which judges your quantitative aptitude and logical reasoning (find the next shape, find the missing number). Questions like "find the least no to be multiplied by 100! such that is its divisible by 3^50?" , "find the probability of dice rolled three times to sum up as 10?".
Tips: Preparing for CAT would do. It is a very easy test. You need you ensure that all ur questions are correct as there was a lot of time.

Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 20

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: I expected a very technical round with all sorts of questions on statistics and data analysis. But it was soft spoken interview. They literally want to know why you want to join data analysis and Why Amex? And how passionate are you towards work?
Interview is taken by very experienced people from the company and is more of a discussion about ur cv and projects related to data analysis. They listen to whatever code or piece of programming you have done and how well you know.
I talked about the courses I took to learn data analysis on coursera, my MTP project on optimization and its algorithms and why i wanted to join Amex.
My interview ended with a puzzle which was "There is weight balance and i want to measure from 1 kg to 100 kg. So what is the minimum no of stones and their weights required to measure any material with weght between 1kg to 100 kg.". I solved the problem and then he asked me why do you think this is the most optimum way. I answered it a bit and then he made my problem difficult by adding a information that "we can put weights on both sides". I was not able to solve it but defined the strategy should be used to find solution. My interview ended with my interviewer helping me solve the problem and explaining me the answers clearly. He said he will talk to HR but no HR round happened and I got selected. I would suggest to check with others about the kind of HR questions they ask.
Tips: Be confident, talk about what you know. I started my data analysis in the last semester but was really amazed with the things I studied. So, most important thing is to find out if you like the domain or not. If the domain fits you, its the matter of showing interviewers the enthusiasm towards the subject genuinely.
Knowing data analysis obviously helps but company expects you learn and grow rather learn in the company from most experienced people itself :).
All the Best

General Tips: Placement is the matter of the interviewer understanding your motivation to work with the firm. So show them what you got for them.
Skills: Logical Reasoning, Quantitative Aptitude
College Name: IIT Kharagpur
Motivation: Well, I heard its the best company to work in. The very statement motivated me to work with such a firm.
Funny Moments: After my interview, they asked me to have some cashew nuts which they were eating as it was late and they were hungry. So, I took one and also said that "the whole day was so hectic and I was so hungry :P ". So they asked me to take the whole packet with me and I took.
I came outside with a packet of cashew nuts in my hand with motion of chewing and everyone was like "WTF seriously, did u just come from an interview :P "

Round: Test
Experience: There is  negative marking. It is relatively harder than other analytics companies tests.
Total Questions: 20

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: there are 2 rounds for technical interview

Round: HR Interview
Experience: They have 1-2 HR rounds as well which are pretty easy.

College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: 1 MCQ test; It had +1/-1 marking scheme. Probability was a major topic.
Duration: 60minutes minutes
Total Questions: 20

General Tips: PoRs was not a major factor. Rather, the focus was on analytical skills and math skills. They didn’t ask puzzles, nor did they have any resume based shortlist. But do show that you are comfortable in programming in R and python, in your resume. Having prior experience in machine learning is a big plus.
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Other Interview
Experience: The company is pretty much of  a customer centric one. Experiencing use of credit card net banking and ecommerce

General Tips: Have a good overview of the projects.
Skills: Coding Skills
College Name: IIT MADRAS

Round: Test
Experience: Very difficult.
Duration: 60 minutes
Total Questions: 20

Round: Interview
Experience: Data analysis questions, questions on resume - internship and project.

Round: Interview
Experience: Data analysis questions, questions on resume - internship and project.

Skill Tips: Read up about company. HR prep, resume prep, company groundwork.
Skills: Multivariate data analysis, Probability and Statistics, Linear Algebra, Machine learning, Algorithms, Python, R
College Name: IIT MADRAS