This was by far the most inhuman interview experience I have ever had. At the time of my interview, I was attending a prestigious technical university in the US. After solving a small network optimization case study, I was invited for an online interview. The timeslot I was offered for the interview was at 5am in the morning (due to the time difference between Europe and US), and later that day I had to take a final exam for one of the tougher courses I had that semester. I kindly explained my situation and asked whether it would be possible to get another timeslot for the interview. To my surprise, I got the following response to my request: "This is the only timeslot we have, take it or leave it." Already there, an alarm bell already went of in my head... Yet, I decided to continue with the interview. I was told the interview would last around 45min to 1hour and that half of it would be spent discussing the case study I had solved prior to the interview, and the other half would cover more generic personal questions. On the day of the interview, I was ready in the virtual Zoom waiting room at 4:50am, but it was not until 5:05am that the KLM staff showed up. If you ask somebody to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, the least you could do is show up on time yourself... Once the interview started, I noticed that the HR lady was completely unprepared and had not looked at my CV at all... Finally, 25min into the interview, people started knocking on the windows of the glass cubicle the KLM team was sitting in. They told me the meeting room had been double booked, and therefore they had to close the call early. At that point, I was completely flabbergasted as they literally just hung up on me. No "Thank you", no "Goodbye", just a quick "We will call you tomorrow." The day after they called me, and surprise, surprise, I was not selected to go through to the next round. I asked them what the reason was for their decision, and all they said was that (1) I did not seem motivated and (2) I did not have enough coding experience... You can't even imagine how frustrated I was at that point. I think I showed enough motivation just by showing up to the interview at 5am in the first place. For (2), I solved the Network Optimization I was given in Python without any difficulties, but unfortunately, we didn't talk about the case study at all during the interview (I'm not even sure the HR person was aware I had to solve this case study prior to the interview). Besides that, they never asked me any questions on my coding experience or gave me any other coding assignments, so I have no idea where the HR person got the guts from to tell an engineering student he has too little coding experience. Despite the frustration, I was happy that I did not get an offer after this traumatizing experience. However, I did want to make sure my case was raised internally within KLM, as I could simply not accept the way I was treated. I wrote the VP of the department I applied to explain my situation. Long story short, KLM's HR and their recruiting process are a joke.

I was an online interview and I was given a case study in which I was tasked to solve a problem. It was really easy. The interview was with someone from HR and another analyst. I was asked to introduce myself but was cut short to because they said there is no time. Then, the analyst started to asked me the questions which were basically the tweaked version of the case study. They were easy as well. Then, they asked if I was comfortable coding on the job and I said of course. then they asked if I was comfortable coding in Python and I said my solution was in Python. Then they asked what kind of problem I am expecting to be dealing with on the job. So they basically asked me the things that I will be facing if I got the job while every one in a while kept saying that they were short on time. They finally asked if I had any questions. I asked if there was a second interview because the title of the invite was first interview and they said yes. In the second stage, I would be asked to solve a bigger, more challenging problem in NL. Since they were short on time I said I had no further questions saving them for the second interview. The they took their sweet time off the camera and came back and said no. and the problem was my motivation and that I did not ask any questions. Really tired of dealing with these ones. It was like a joke. Hope now they have some idea what they are talking about.