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Updated Mar 24, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Revenue Analyst at HomeAway
Posted Mar 24, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Austin, TX (took 3 days)
Initial phone interview was with Human Resources and then 3 days later an interview with the hiring manager.
About a week after the interview with the hiring manager they sent me an Excel test to complete. They indicated that they absolutely wanted to move forward but they wanted to guage my Excel skills. I assume that I did not do well on their test. I did not hear from them again.
The test consisted of naming a range, data validation and utilizing sumif(s) to summarize data.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a Skills Test.
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Senior Ruby On Rails/Java Software Developer at HomeAway
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 in Austin, TX (took 3 days)
After I saw the job ad and submitted my application, I got contacted by the HR who seemed to be happy I got matching skills. It was a position requiring both Ruby on Rails and Java. I had a phone interview with the HR (she was almost 30 minutes late and I already called her myself, but she didn't pick up). She also scheduled what she called a technical interview on the phone with a hiring manager (he was actually a director), 45 minutes long. In the beginning he just talked-and-talked-and-talked about the company and its products like I was an investor or something. Then he went through my jobs, no questions about technical aspects, may be he didn't know them better. He asked about one job, and then skipped to the next one without me answering. He spent a few minutes explaining that an indexing server stores information in text, like it was a lot of complexity. Basically, the interview was mostly a lot of irrelevant talking, chewy, sales like and impossible to make into a dialog about what they want and how my skills match, no any questions about team fit etc. In the end I felt like a salesman who failed to put up a show and convince a house owner to buy an electric gadget. He told me they would contact me later, as they just started the interviewing (that's what he said, I've heard of them hiring 3 weeks before), but I already saw the status of my application changed to "not selected". The company got a lot of technical talent by acquiring startups worldwide, other then that I don't see how they would hire engineers based on their qualifications.
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(it was the only question for this interview)
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Operations Director at HomeAway
Posted Sep 15, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jul 2011 in Austin, TX (took a day)
quick human response to online application. Email discussion to schedule phone interview with HR. 1 hour HR interview. She was super informative about the role and the company. The down side is that the description as posted missed key elements of the role. Once I understood more about the role and she understood more about my background, we mutually agreed that proceeding further did not make sense for either of us.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer at HomeAway
Posted Nov 16, 2010
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1.0
Very Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2010 in Austin, TX (took a day)
The interview process is well organized. They organized a welcome dinner in downtown Austin for you to network with employees and the interview take place next day.
There are 2 45 minutes interviews and they are painfully easy. I ended up writing about 10 lines of code. I believe it depends on interviewers but the difficulty should be tuned up because challenging interviews do give the candidate the impression that the company is prestigious.
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The interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.
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Engineer Manager1 at HomeAway
Posted Oct 9, 2010
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2010 in San Jose, CA (took a day)
They asked me to write a linked list for my technical interview. This is the most standard and hilariously lame question to ask a software engineer candidate. I wasn't even applying to be a software engineer but they said they had to give me the question anyway. Awkward silence ensued as I told them it was ridiculous.
The guys were super nice though. The company is moving quick so it could be a great place for somebody else.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Skills Test.
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Product Manager at HomeAway
Posted Mar 19, 2009 — 6 of 6 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Received and Declined Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2009 in Austin, TX (took 3 weeks)
I found the process long, drawn out, and disorganized. After making email contact, I set up a phone interview with the recruiter. She called 15 minutes late and then told me she had a "hard stop" at the end of our originally scheduled time. After rushing through an initial screen, we had to set up a second call to follow up. The second call was about as unprofessional as the first, but they decided to bring me in for a face to face.
A week later, I came in to their office to met with the VP of Product and the Technology director. The interviews were a little odd since they really didn't ask me any questions. Things went smoothly, and they asked me to come in to their office again to meet the "rest of the team". After about a week and a half delay, during which the recruiter kept telling me all about the difficulties of scheduling cross departmental time, I was finally scheduled for a second set of interviews - 5 back to back interviews with 7 people, including product managers, developers, and designers, over lunch hours.
The interviews went pretty well. They just asked questions about my specific background and had me ask them questions about their company. My last interview of the day canceled on me. At the end of the day, the recruiter told me I also had to speak with another product manager that was off site in Colorado and set me up for a phone interview with him 4 days later. I spoke with him and it was more of the same discussions about their company and industry.
After this interview, I was not contacted or had my emails responded to for over a week. When the recruiter finally responded to me, it was to say that they were interested in having me in a different product management position. In order to verify this, they wanted me to take a 3rd half day, and come in to their office once again. At this point, I'd had enough. I told them I can speak with whoever they wanted on the phone, but I can't keep disappearing from work. It was also a little unsettling that after 1 month and 10 interviews with 9 people, this company still needed more information in order to make a decision.
They called me the next day and said they would be "pursuing other candidates", because I didn't want to come in anymore.
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Reason for Declining
After 1 month and 10 interviews with 9 people they couldn't make a decision. That raised some red flags. Plus, I couldn't invest any more in the interview process.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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