KAYAK·Full Stack Engineer

KAYAK Full Stack Engineer interview experience

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BerlinPosted Mar 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter connection and then a programming assignment.

In my assignment, the frontend part covered CSS and JavaScript, while the backend part was in Java, and the requirements were straightforward enough that I double-checked the work and believed it was correct.

Even with that, I didn’t move forward. Another time I was sent a programming test, but I declined to do it after feeling the process was beneath my time—especially given that there was no clear way to understand what was wrong if they chose to reject without explanation.

Neither path led to an offer, and what stayed with me was the mismatch between the effort I put in and the lack of a

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