I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Hotel Trader (Bengaluru) in Apr 2026
Interview
Got call from a recruiter, after that they scheduled 1 dummy interview telling if I score 7 out of 10 then only they will schedule for the company. Interviewer joined late and then asked 1 algo which i started but stopped in between and started asking questions for the same. Then he went offline and joined after 10 min. And then asked a SQL query. I gave the query but he wanted the same which he had in his mind. But somehow i got selected for real interview. In Hotel trader interview they asked to create a spring boot project and asked to setup from before so we can kick start during interview. Asked to design some APIs and asked me to do that. Expected to create 5 APIs with all logic. I was not able to write full code as I was not remembering all the annotations. But I explained and wrote most of the code which was possible in that short duration. I think they wanted the person who remembers everything and not who gives solution. Overall average experience.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Hotel Trader in Sep 2025
Interview
Worst ever process, and looks like nothing has changed even after two years. All rounds went fine and were marked “GOOD-TO-HIRE.” The final session was described as non-eliminatory and meant for team-fit discussion, but it unexpectedly turned into a rejection round.
The feedback was puzzling...apparently a single-machine in-memory cache is considered more scalable than Redis in hundreds of nodes in distributed system. That kind of reasoning makes you question the technical standards and consistency of evaluation. It honestly felt like the outcome was already decided before the final discussion, and the feedback was just to justify it.
Overall, the process felt misleading, inconsistent, and lacking technical maturity. Don’t waste your time here.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you handle deduplication in a distributed system?
I applied for the MM role. After the first interview they told me the job is actually for an account manager, and the interviewer passed me to someone else. My first interview was positive long about an hour but conducted well. I had a total of two interviews and was then ghosted by hiring manager which was the second interview. I had to follow up multiple times to then receive a generic rejection email 3 weeks plus later. This all was handled so unprofessionally. I really respected the company till that..