I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Navan
Interview
A third party recruiter contacted, set up a Zoom meeting with lead recruiter who setup a technical round with one of the engineers.
The interviewer turns up 30 mins late, pastes a Hard leet code problem, starts munching burger and keeps looking down and was for some reason not interested in any thing I wrote on the screen, very poor communication, he probably did not understand any of the standard questions he was asking.
30 mins up and he said that I will grant you 30 more mins as I came late and then at the end asks me, do you have a solution when he obviously saw I was struggling with the problem and had covered only partial use cases.
My advice to any one interviewing here would be to stay as far away, there were just too many red flags.
The hiring manager seemed very disorganized and asked me about some of my experiences and when I would start to describe them she looked very impatient and would interrupt me and say no that's not what I was asking for I want you to tell about this other project that was on your resume. I felt like I had no dignity on the interview because she just seemed so irritated the whole time that I spoke I knew there was no way I could work under the hiring manager if this was the way that she talks to candidates.
I applied online. I interviewed at Navan (Berlin) in May 2026
Interview
There are 3 to 4 rounds
Recruiter rounds (30mins) - discussed about the current role and responsibilities, and explained the hiring process
Hiring manager round (1 hr) - had some technical questions about current experience and about the project
Live coding round (1hr) - LeetCode question and you need to do it on the Coderpad
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find the largest length of the non-repeating substring from the given string and return the length
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Navan
Interview
Unprofessional interview experience.
1) We did not even introduced ourselves. He directly jumped to the coding problem. I don't know why he did that. I even joined 2-3 mins before.
2) He gave me a problem and he struggled a lot to explain the problem statement. I did few cross questioning but he changed the question I don't know why. He said lets do another question.
then he gave me another leet code problem statement. I solved it but he was using leetcode tool at his end to verify the answers if all the test cases are passing. he told me that few are failing. I fixed it and he then said out of 212 test cases few are still failing and I got the solution to solve that failing scenario but he said I am not happy with this iterating approach of solving the problem. He was so rude. No one would like to work with this kind of people who disrespect others.
He wanted me to solve the problem in the first attempt. i couldn't do that and also my all test cases didn't pass. So I didn't do well in the interview.
It is fine if you reject someone but rudeness is not the correct way. Navan should take professional classes for their employees.