TravelPerk Interview Questions

Application

The process took 2+ weeks. I interviewed at TravelPerk (New York, NY).

Interview

Had a first good interview with an external English HR specialist. They sent me a Codility test... it had its complexity, but I wouldn't think that is good enough to know if someone is good or not. I should have seen it coming. Then I had to do the same HR interview again with a HR guy from the company... this time in Spanish, like if that would add anything. Then I had an interview with some "Dave" guy. I was suspicious about speaking to a "Just Dave", like if I were about to speak with Steve Jobs. The interview started really bad because this presumptuous guy said the image was not bright enough... just buy a better monitor, what kind of company are you running? Anyway, they lost my interest from the beggining. After that we reviewed my CV... again... for the third time. OK, this guys really don't know how to hire people and are really insecured people. Then he attempted questions "about technology the candidate knows"... he asked "which ones"... OK, I knew it was a bad company with fake reviews... 5.0 is not really believable, there is a catch.

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Application

I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at TravelPerk (Barcelona (Spain)) in September 2018.

Interview

You just get an email with a link to Codility to bet all your possibilities in a single "happy-idea problem".
They are using Codility in a wrong way: instead of 5 or 10 questions/tests that the platform allows, they send you only 1 problem that tells actually nothing about yourself and your capabilities.

Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at TravelPerk.

Interview

Quick and fast response after applying, really quick and short interview too. Follow up was quick as well. In general felt like an approachable company.

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at TravelPerk in May 2018.

Interview

Very nice and friendly atmosphere! The interview took about 30 minutes and was quiet entertaining, It was fun, talking with the interviewer. The questions were not that difficult but he asked a lot. I had the possibility to ask questions during and after the interview.

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Application

I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at TravelPerk (Barcelona (Spain)) in October 2017.

Interview

I really liked the interview process at Travelperk. They seem to be building a great product and are being extra cautious with their growth and team (both very positive signs of stability). They are also willing to go well above the average for Barcelona if you can prove your worth.

Pros:
* Great schedule flexibility (can split over several days or do almost all of it in a single day).
* No complex/tricky brain teasers or obscure algorithms. All questions involved simple things you might have to deal with during your daily work.
* Everyone I met was incredibly nice and knowledgeable, giving you the opportunity of having very interesting discussions, not just answer pre-scripted questions.
* Everything moved very fast: It feels like the bottleneck is the person being interviewed. If you have the required availability, I wouldn't be surprised if you got through the whole process in just a couple of days.

Cons:
* Rather lengthy process: 3 hours at home plus around 7 hours on-site.

Whole process is split in several parts:
* At home:
- Recruiter phone call (0.5hrs): typical getting to know you and the company call.
- Codility test at home (2.5hrs): 3 exercises: warm-up exercise, simple peformance-focused algorithm exercise and a fix the bug in this code exercise. Exercises were quite accessible and was even allowed to resubmit one of them because of a off-by-1 mistake.

* On-site:
- Interview with Recruiter (0.5hrs): talking about your objectives, previous experiences, more details about the company.
- Interview with Tech Lead (1hr): general questions around different tech stacks you've worked with, high-level explanations of different technologies.
- Interview with CTO (1hr): getting to know the history and vision of the company, more personal questions, great chance for deeper questions about tech stack and processes.
- System Design interview (1.5hrs): Describing overall system architecture for a 'clone' of some popular service. Being able to reason about data storage and querying, scalability, reliability, apis, project management.
- Code Challenge interview (1hr): Simple problem involving recursion to be coded on an actual laptop (yours or theirs). Problem is then refined in 3/4 small variations to show you know how to handle changing requirements and actually know how to code and didn't just copy paste some solution.
- Team members interview (0.5hrs): Informal chat with 2 members of the dev team. Great opportunity to get a different viewpoint on the position and the company. Looks for cultural fit.
- Interview with CEO (0.5hrs-1hr): Yet another opportunity to get to know more about the history and about who runs the company. Also a cultural fit test I suspect.

After these stages, if you're successful you're given an offer (on the same day as the last interview on my case) and are asked for 4 references from previous workmates and supervisors/managers.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5+ months. I interviewed at TravelPerk (Barcelona (Spain)) in September 2018.

Interview

It was long and exhausting, it lasted almost 6 months mostly because of my availability and back and forth communication, it consisted of:

- Quick interview with recruiter
- Quick chat with technical interviewer
- Home assignment using Codility

After the home assignment I was flown over to Barcelona for the onsite interview, it is a full day that starts with another HR interview, then a long whiteboard systems design and architecture exercise(it changes, for me it was a Google Analytics application), then a coding challenge.

Overall it was a long process but the feedback throughout was very good, the whiteboard and coding challenge also have help from the interviewers and it made it a bit better and an overall positive experience.

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Application

I applied through other source. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at TravelPerk.

Interview

They use terrible recruitment procedures. One day I received an email with an offer, I replied to their email asking some questions and never heard back from them.

I guess they are looking for emails in github and spamming developers with their job offers.

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Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at TravelPerk (London, England (UK)) in April 2018.

Interview

First round: A Skype call with a HR recruiter. On the serfice the interview seemed professional, but there were several red flags that made me question the attitude within the company. The interviewer came into the interview with presuppositions, and seemed more interested in justifying them, rather than trying to listen and understand the context. Overall the whole proccess felt like a sort of judgemental interrogation, where I was on the defensive from the start. The interviewer did a great job selling the company at the same time, mentioning the great reviews on Glassdoor, that it's a great place to work and that there is a huge competition for the position. At the end when I asked about the next steps, I was told that the next step would be a test. But when I asked the recruiter for specifics, I just got a smile and a deflection as an answer. Overall I'm still wondering why they even bothered to invite me for an interview when it was clear from the start that they were not looking for someone with my profile, especially since there was a huge competition for the position.

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Application

I applied online. The process took a week. I interviewed at TravelPerk in August 2018.

Interview

I sent an online application to their job.
HR contacted me and we had a video call where I was asked about my background in order to determine if I could be a good fit for the company.
Second interview was also a video call, a technical interview where I got to know more about the job position and what would be expected from me.
There are more steps, including an on-site interview where you get to spend a day with the team, but at the second interview I realized myself I wouldn't be a good fit so we stopped the process.

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Application

I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at TravelPerk (Barcelona (Spain)) in August 2018.

Interview

I was contacted by the team directly as they were actively hunting product owners. Went to interview with HR and with the CPO. Interview was friendly, still a startup, lots to do, exciting challenges etc. However it felt like product was lacking vision and the definition of the role of the product owner was quite junior, not even owning the relationship with stakeholders. It felt quite clear that it wasn't the right fit for me but the feedback i received was that they wanted someone more hands on (rest skills were not interested in) and if i was willing to only focus on that only, they were keen to keep talking. I fully understand that there may be no role fit,no culture fit, etc but i wouldnt try to recruit senior talent for a junior role. It is not the same working with a team of 20 engineers or working with a team of 5, takes more skills to succeed. I wish Travelperk all the best and looking forward to see how they revolutionize travel.

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