KAYAK·Frontend Engineer

KAYAK Frontend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted Apr 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started in a normal, even positive way: an initial HR call went well, and then I got a take-home that was an easy REST API app built in React.

I expected the onsite to follow the same tone.

Instead, the onsite ended up being one of the worst experiences I’d had. The recruiter told me it would be mostly conversational with a small coding assessment, but that didn’t reflect what actually happened. On top of that, an interviewer from the Berlin office came across as rude and condescending, which left a bad taste immediately.

Even though the early stages felt fine, the final onsite experience outweighed everything else. I didn’t get an offer, and what I remember most clearly was the combination of misleading expectations and the

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