La procedura ha richiesto 2 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso loveholidays nel mese di mag 2025
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Screening round - 30 min technical recruiter screening - the interviewer was very clear about the expectations from the interview process and job role
1st round - interview with a lead engineer and senior engineer - this round was mostly about understanding my past projects and experience.
2nd round was broken into 3 stages
1. 1st stage was either a live coding round or a take home assignment. I opted for the take home assignment, which was followed with a 1 hour call with a lead and senior engineer where I had to explain my code and incorporate their suggestions
2. 2nd stage was with the lead of the platform/infra team where we discussed about my sensitivity towards good infra practices, cost analysis and how to build robust systems
3. 3rd stage was with a product manager who mostly asked me about product and culture questions, such as how I think about a product or the customer journey, and how I validate a hypotheses I might have by gathering data points
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The take home assignment was a BFS/DFS question around calculating the cost of a flight from one city to another, given in the format of a matrix.
The interview process was exceptionally fast and smooth. All interviewers were professional and genuinely nice people. The challenges were highly relevant and applicable to the work. The most technically demanding portion was the take-home coding assessment.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 2 mesi. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso loveholidays (Londra, Inghilterra) nel mese di ott 2025
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The interview process was smooth and fairly easy, and communication throughout was clear. I performed strongly in all rounds, in some cases exceptionally well, and the interviewers seemed genuinely pleased. That’s why the rejection came as a surprise. The feedback I received felt disconnected from the actual discussions, almost like a generic response generated from a few keywords. It gave the impression that the outcome may have already been decided 🤦♂️ possibly due to internal preferences, sponsorship, or pay-scale alignment. Considering other reviews, I now understand why several candidates have rated the process low.
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Questions were simple and technical — API design, scaling, monitoring. Nothing remotely related to the feedback I later got about being “too delivery focused"
Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso loveholidays (Londra, Inghilterra)
Colloquio
HR call, then took more than 1 month to schedule the next technical call with engineers. Discussed past experience and some questions about coding conventions / design principles. After that, absolute silence without any result / feedback.
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Discussed past experience and some questions about coding conventions / design principles