1p3a Experience · Feb 2026

HotelTrader Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

SWE Senior

Interview 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 g

Full Details

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

About This Question

This is a candidate experience report from a hoteltrader interview for a swe role (senior level) reported in 2026.

It covers the following topics: Hash Table, System Design, Linked List, Sorting .