HotelTrader | Senior Software Engineer | Remote

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· Senior Software Engineer· Remote
February 5, 2026 · 8 reads

Summary

I was contacted by Recro and interviewed for a Senior Software Engineer position at HotelTrader via an AI-led process. The interview consisted of two coding questions, and ultimately, I was rejected.

Full Experience

I was contacted by Recro company and told that first round will be conducted by AI(yes you read that right).

Interview started with the automated voice asking me about my projects and there was some grilling about my projects. Then there were 2 coding questions.

Q1. LRU cache implementation. Constraint was mentioned as use a hashmap with a doubly linked list

Q2. Design a task class and implement two methods addTask and getNextTask. Constraint was not to use any inbuilt feature like comparator in Java for sorting.

Java was the language chosen by AI, language modification not allowed

Total time was 1 hour with 20 mins allocated to each mentioned above.

Verdict: Rejected

Interview Questions (2)

1.

LRU Cache Implementation

Data Structures & Algorithms·Medium

Implement an LRU cache. Constraint was mentioned as use a hashmap with a doubly linked list.

2.

Design Task Scheduler

Data Structures & Algorithms·Medium

Design a task class and implement two methods: addTask and getNextTask. Constraint was not to use any inbuilt feature like comparator in Java for sorting.

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