I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at American Airlines (Phoenix, AZ) in July 2022
Interview
I was contacted by a recuiter who couldn't tell me much about the team or interview itself. Several days later I had an interview via video call. It was the worst interview I've ever had in my multi-decade career as an engineer.
The manager joined late and nobody thought to do an introduction before the technical review started. I was faced with seven people and only two of them had names I could pronounce. I gave a rushed introduction and then I was given a technical question.
No context was given with the question as to what I was trying to accomplish. I walked through the code and when asked questions suggested it would be faster if we spend five seconds looking at the Internet where snippets of code like this are well documented.
I prematurely asked to end the call after fifteen minutes because the questioning was going nowhere. I literally cannot believe that a major airline is recuiting junior engineers in this manner, let alone senior engineers.
I've interviewed at companies like Tesla where they spend hours giving interviewees time to give a presentation on a topic, answer questions by a panel and have technical conversations one on one with individual engineers.
This was the complete opposite. And I cannot imagine making a life-altering decision to work for a company that interviews people in this manner.
This was just a mind-boggling and depressing experience. I fear for our collective future.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the min and max in a few lines of a json array.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at American Airlines (Hyderābād)
Interview
I attended 1st round and it is success, waiting for 2nd round, it is not that much difficulty. Excited to get offer from American airlines, I got call for 2nd round.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at American Airlines in Sept 2025
Interview
1 round with basic dsa and system design it was more technical and time is not enough with some weird problems to solve the question was not clear and it was not straightforward
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How will you manage message congestion or back pressure
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at American Airlines (Dallas, TX) in June 2024
Interview
The interview process was completed in 1 day. 2 coding rounds followed by 1 technical discussion and managerial discussion.
Coding rounds starts with easier one more on string manipulation or array manipulation like reverse each words in a sentence and finding a leader in a arrays.
Technical discussion were more focused on Oops concepts.
Managerial discussion was more about behavioral questions and some agile methodology questions.