I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at OpenTable
Interview
1. HR screening with a Talent Aqcuisition Specialist, talks about the company, products, teams, position, candidate's experience and interests.
2. Call with a Software Engineering Manager from the team owning the position. Talks more deeply about the project and team. Asked several technical questions regarding the tech stack, feels more like a conversation around several engineering practices. My suggestion is that you formulate a strong opinion about each of the topics they ask (design patterns, architecture, threading, etc.).
3. If you do good in previous interview, you will be scheduled a series of "onsite" interviews consisting in 4 back to back calls with several people in the team you are interviewing. Most of this calls will be heavily coding focused, so you can expect solving a code challenge or come up with a system design for an specific problem they give you.
4. If performed good during onsite interviews, they will schedule a call to let you know they will be extending an offer and go over details of it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Code challenges (algorithms, data structures, complexity), system design.
The product seems interesting, but the HR person complained about their work and didn't know how to answer basic questions about the team during the interview. I got a generic rejection a few weeks later.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
past experience, state management, explain a solution
I applied online. I interviewed at OpenTable (Toronto, ON) in Dec 2025
Interview
It was smooth however they failed to inform what was the nature of the interview. I assumed it to be a screening /behavioral interview but it turned out to be a technical coding interview
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at OpenTable (Londres, Inglaterra)
Interview
The interview began with a phone call with hiring manager where my interest to apply and past experiences were gauged . Followed by a take home coding test . After the coding test was submitted , I had three to four rounds of interview speaking to future team mates and one pair programming session related to the coding task , then a chat with the PM , hiring manager and another manager . Although the interview took long it was great experience meeting really great people. The whole process was great and didn't feel like I was being tested but the interview was conducted with an approach of getting to know the candidate
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
To extend a feature on the coding task. The requirement was to add certain percentage discount before the diner checks out.
