KAYAK Software Engineer interview experience

That call covered my work history and what I’d run into technically, with a handful of basic Java questions mixed in. A short time later I was invited to the office for the next rounds.

On-site ended up being a fast, structured gauntlet with four people total. Over about two weeks, I went through a coding exercise, a separate interview focused on design, and another round that was more about debugging. The whole thing felt more like a deliberate pipeline than a casual conversation—efficient, and pretty tightly scheduled. Even so, the environment around the interviews was genuinely friendly