KAYAK·Software Engineer

KAYAK Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Cambridge, MAPosted Mar 2016 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first step was a quick recruiter connection and then, pretty quickly, I was sent a code exercise the same day as initial contact.

I finished it that night and returned it, and about a week later I got scheduled for an in-person interview day.

That day was pretty intense: I met four developers and a PM, and it started around 11AM. Early on, one developer asked about my background and then handed me a paper where I had to find three bugs in code, plus a question about handling data. The PM conversation was more open-ended—why I wanted a new job and how I’d juggle multiple tasks. It was also noticeable that I didn’t get invited to lunch; I only got food later in the afternoon after another developer asked me about whether

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