I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Newton, MA) in Dec 2011
Interview
I submitted a resume through Scienceworks (the recruiting website of my university). Maybe 2 months later I got an email from TripAdvisor saying they'd like to do a phone interview. Surprised, I gladly accept and make an appointment. The time comes, and I don't get a call. An hour later, I get an email for a reschedule. The second time, the same thing happens and they send me an email right before telling me they have to reschedule again.
So finally, the third time, I actually get a phone interview with them. The interviewer is one of their engineers, and he has a thick (French?) accent that I could barely understand. After some difficulty, he gets me started on a coding problem online. I have some trouble understanding what exactly he wants me to do, so I sit there a while, coding for maybe 30 minutes, until it's clear to both me (and him) that I don't really know what I'm doing. So I stop. He asks me to explain what my algorithm does (which was hard to do given that I didn't finish), as well as the Big Oh.
Naturally, I get an email right afterward saying they will not be proceeding with my application, thanking me for my time, and that I need to get a bit more coding experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given some Java code representing a travel alert system, write one of the functions that returns the most relevant travel alert.
People were very kind, interesting questions that didn't feel like rote memorization and more of an assessment of your thinking process in system design. Had two rounds and the last one was pretty conversational (no code written, just talking through design).
1. applied on Linkedin 2. I got contacted by a recruiter and set my first technical/behavioral interview. 3. I passed my first interview, a mix of technical and behavioral questions 4. second technical/behavioral interview 5. final interview with an Engineering manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. 2 sums and some follow-up questions 2. anagram or palindrome and some follow-up questions complexity must be of O(n)
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I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Newton, MA) in Nov 2013
Interview
I had applied through Campus Career Fair. I had
- 1 campus interview
- 1 telephonic
- 3 onsite interview rounds
The interview process was very smooth and professional.
- In every round, I had to write code to some problem.
- Problems were a mix of coding problems and solving some real world design problem.
- They focus a lot on data structures, complexity and problem solving.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Some interesting design problems which I was not expecting. I enjoyed working on those though.
