Navan

Front End Developer Interview Experience

October 24, 2024

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Process

I applied online.

HR: I was contacted by the HR, and we had a regular screening call.
Team Lead: I had a 15-20 minute conversation with the team lead. Mostly, there were questions to understand if you will fit the project, with no technical ones.
First tech interview: There were 4 tasks there—3 JavaScript questions (I highly recommend doing a lot of LeetCode challenges and going through how setTimeout and setInterval work under the hood) and a React task consisting of some subtasks.
Second tech interview: There were JavaScript tasks. I also recommend doing a lot of LeetCode.
HR interview: There was a regular culture fit.
Group lead: There was an interview with the group lead.
Head of HR: There was an interview with the head of HR.

Questions

I wrote in the description.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Navan Front End Developer role.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Navan's interview process for their Front End Developer roles is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive67%

Neutral0%

Negative33%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Navan's Front End Developer interview process.

Navan Work Experiences

Not for everyone

Front End Developer • Current Employee

February 3, 2025

Pros: 1) great salary. 2)very interesting work(not simple at all) 3)great people 4)nice office

Cons: This company will not be for everyone, the work here is hard and fast paced. So softwhere developers bewhere , you will have a ton of work here and not the colouring buttons kind ))). but if you make the effort for your first 2-3 months , you will love what you do and it will become simpler.

Not for everyone

Front End Developer • Current Employee

February 3, 2025

Pros: 1) great salary. 2)very interesting work(not simple at all) 3)great people 4)nice office

Cons: This company will not be for everyone, the work here is hard and fast paced. So softwhere developers bewhere , you will have a ton of work here and not the colouring buttons kind ))). but if you make the effort for your first 2-3 months , you will love what you do and it will become simpler.

Ok generally

Front End Developer • Former Employee

October 5, 2026

Pros: A couple, decent company to work for.

Cons: The commute is the main problem.

Front End Developer • Former Employee

October 5, 2026

Pros: A couple, decent company to work for.

Cons: The commute is the main problem.

I have never even heard (let alone worked for) of a worse tech company

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 5, 2025

Pros: Honestly? the only one is that there are lots of dogs. The pay is decent - on par (and a little bit lower) than other decent public Israeli companies. There are no raises, however, so that’s the case only for the first year.

Cons: Let me begin with the fact that I personally don’t know a single happy employee in the Israeli site. I’m not even joking. I’ve never seen such a churn rate. Its a known joke in the company - you don’t know who is gonna disappear next. Interpersonal cons: * Absolute and complete toxic management. Choose any toxic aspect you want and its there! micromanagement, endless hours and no work life balance, arrogance, gaslighting and whatnot. * There’s no celebrating success - other companies have weekly happy hours which are more fancy than this company’s IPO celebration. * You can’t really connect to anyone because they’re always leaving. * The company announced they’ll embrace yearly layoffs like they do in Amazon, so prepare for that! Technical cons: * The majority of the company’s codebase is in a single enormous repository that’s impossible to maintain or work with. * Security procedures cause developer productivity to be reduced to absolute zero. You can’t do anything without endless approvals and engineers knowingly skip good practices to overcome this. * Lots of core functionality is written in an extremely fragile and low quality code. * Endless politics which you can’t avoid, because you’ll have to deal with unbearable developers with political power to do your job. * Teams scattered over the world make you work with other time zones. * The extreme churn causes sources of knowledge to leave, leaving you with piles of code to deal with yourself.

I have never even heard (let alone worked for) of a worse tech company

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 5, 2025

Pros: Honestly? the only one is that there are lots of dogs. The pay is decent - on par (and a little bit lower) than other decent public Israeli companies. There are no raises, however, so that’s the case only for the first year.

Cons: Let me begin with the fact that I personally don’t know a single happy employee in the Israeli site. I’m not even joking. I’ve never seen such a churn rate. Its a known joke in the company - you don’t know who is gonna disappear next. Interpersonal cons: * Absolute and complete toxic management. Choose any toxic aspect you want and its there! micromanagement, endless hours and no work life balance, arrogance, gaslighting and whatnot. * There’s no celebrating success - other companies have weekly happy hours which are more fancy than this company’s IPO celebration. * You can’t really connect to anyone because they’re always leaving. * The company announced they’ll embrace yearly layoffs like they do in Amazon, so prepare for that! Technical cons: * The majority of the company’s codebase is in a single enormous repository that’s impossible to maintain or work with. * Security procedures cause developer productivity to be reduced to absolute zero. You can’t do anything without endless approvals and engineers knowingly skip good practices to overcome this. * Lots of core functionality is written in an extremely fragile and low quality code. * Endless politics which you can’t avoid, because you’ll have to deal with unbearable developers with political power to do your job. * Teams scattered over the world make you work with other time zones. * The extreme churn causes sources of knowledge to leave, leaving you with piles of code to deal with yourself.

Not for everyone

Front End Developer • Current Employee

February 3, 2025

Pros: 1) great salary. 2)very interesting work(not simple at all) 3)great people 4)nice office

Cons: This company will not be for everyone, the work here is hard and fast paced. So softwhere developers bewhere , you will have a ton of work here and not the colouring buttons kind ))). but if you make the effort for your first 2-3 months , you will love what you do and it will become simpler.

5.0
Not for everyone
Front End Developer • Current Employee
Tel Aviv-Yafo
February 3, 2025
Pros: 1) great salary. 2)very interesting work(not simple at all) 3)great people 4)nice office
Cons: This company will not be for everyone, the work here is hard and fast paced. So softwhere developers bewhere , you will have a ton of work here and not the colouring buttons kind ))). but if you make the effort for your first 2-3 months , you will love what you do and it will become simpler.

Ok generally

Front End Developer • Former Employee

October 5, 2026

Pros: A couple, decent company to work for.

Cons: The commute is the main problem.

4.0
Ok generally
Front End Developer • Former Employee
Tel Aviv-Yafo
October 5, 2026
Pros: A couple, decent company to work for.
Cons: The commute is the main problem.

I have never even heard (let alone worked for) of a worse tech company

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

November 5, 2025

Pros: Honestly? the only one is that there are lots of dogs. The pay is decent - on par (and a little bit lower) than other decent public Israeli companies. There are no raises, however, so that’s the case only for the first year.

Cons: Let me begin with the fact that I personally don’t know a single happy employee in the Israeli site. I’m not even joking. I’ve never seen such a churn rate. Its a known joke in the company - you don’t know who is gonna disappear next. Interpersonal cons: * Absolute and complete toxic management. Choose any toxic aspect you want and its there! micromanagement, endless hours and no work life balance, arrogance, gaslighting and whatnot. * There’s no celebrating success - other companies have weekly happy hours which are more fancy than this company’s IPO celebration. * You can’t really connect to anyone because they’re always leaving. * The company announced they’ll embrace yearly layoffs like they do in Amazon, so prepare for that! Technical cons: * The majority of the company’s codebase is in a single enormous repository that’s impossible to maintain or work with. * Security procedures cause developer productivity to be reduced to absolute zero. You can’t do anything without endless approvals and engineers knowingly skip good practices to overcome this. * Lots of core functionality is written in an extremely fragile and low quality code. * Endless politics which you can’t avoid, because you’ll have to deal with unbearable developers with political power to do your job. * Teams scattered over the world make you work with other time zones. * The extreme churn causes sources of knowledge to leave, leaving you with piles of code to deal with yourself.

1.0
I have never even heard (let alone worked for) of a worse tech company
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Tel Aviv-Yafo
November 5, 2025
Pros: Honestly? the only one is that there are lots of dogs. The pay is decent - on par (and a little bit lower) than other decent public Israeli companies. There are no raises, however, so that’s the case only for the first year.
Cons: Let me begin with the fact that I personally don’t know a single happy employee in the Israeli site. I’m not even joking. I’ve never seen such a churn rate. Its a known joke in the company - you don’t know who is gonna disappear next. Interpersonal cons: * Absolute and complete toxic management. Choose any toxic aspect you want and its there! micromanagement, endless hours and no work life balance, arrogance, gaslighting and whatnot. * There’s no celebrating success - other companies have weekly happy hours which are more fancy than this company’s IPO celebration. * You can’t really connect to anyone because they’re always leaving. * The company announced they’ll embrace yearly layoffs like they do in Amazon, so prepare for that! Technical cons: * The majority of the company’s codebase is in a single enormous repository that’s impossible to maintain or work with. * Security procedures cause developer productivity to be reduced to absolute zero. You can’t do anything without endless approvals and engineers knowingly skip good practices to overcome this. * Lots of core functionality is written in an extremely fragile and low quality code. * Endless politics which you can’t avoid, because you’ll have to deal with unbearable developers with political power to do your job. * Teams scattered over the world make you work with other time zones. * The extreme churn causes sources of knowledge to leave, leaving you with piles of code to deal with yourself.

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