KAYAK·Software Engineer

KAYAK Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

GermanyPosted Dec 2014 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I was contacted via LinkedIn, and early conversations didn’t give much concrete detail about what the job would actually involve.

I had a Skype call, then another call where the interviewer also couldn’t really explain the role’s day-to-day or required technologies. After that, I was assigned a home project: a robot simulation that moved in a 2D matrix based on input coordinates.

The in-site portion was then spread across three separate interviews with three different developers. Each round felt different, and the communication quality varied a lot. In the first on-site interview, the person described software design in a way that was hard to pin down; after I tried different design approaches, they explained the

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