KAYAK·Software Engineer

KAYAK Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

BerlinPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My timeline moved through a lot of steps—an initial call, then a take-home, then a live coding segment, and finally conversations with a hiring manager.

What made it hard to fully trust the process was that I didn’t really know whether I was still in the running while doing so much work.

The take-home was a complete software solution, and that alone stretched the effort. When I reached live coding, the pressure felt intense compared to how I’d been operating in previous parts of the process. By the time I got to the hiring-manager discussion, I’d already spent a lot of time just trying to get to the “real” evaluation.

Even though the steps were clearly present, the overall feel was difficult and a bit exhausting—not just because of the

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