KAYAK·Software Engineer

KAYAK Software Engineer interview experience

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BerlinPosted Jul 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started the way a lot of others did: I went through recruiting contact and ended up doing coding exercises.

I worked through the assignments carefully and made sure everything was submitted, but then the next part dragged. I remember spending a week or more on the exercises and then hearing nothing back.

Once I finally got interviews, it was still framed as a relatively straightforward coding-and-team loop, including Java and JavaScript/CSS-style challenges. The difficulty wasn’t the main problem for me—it was the sheer number of interviews and how long it took to get any signal. What really stuck was the silence afterward. I received a decline without meaningful feedback, and in the longer gaps I

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