Tripadvisor Senior Software Engineer interview questions

The best recruiting process I had so far, I loved it - The process takes some time, for a Senior Software Engineer (SE III) you can expect around like 6 or 7 rounds. I had 7 rounds in this order: - 30min screening call with the recruiter which explains all the process, role and salary expectations - 30min call with the eng manager for the team/project you are applying - 4 hours of technical interviews - 4 rounds of 1h each. these are pair programming exercises focused on data structures and algorithms. each round is usually with one person only which makes you feel much confortable. the problems are easy/medium level, I found them very easy. it's ok if you are not able to finish it or get to the optimal solution. the goal here is to evaluate the programming skills and how you tackle the problem. so make sure you engage with the interviewer as a team mate and think out loud, make questions, he will assist you and give some hints in case you get blocked. You may get one of the interviews to be more kind of a System Design challenge, but in my case it was still very focused on the code and programming fundamentals (like concurrency, asynchronous processing, latency, throughput, data streaming) so it doesn't really matter the tech stack you have experience with, as this is focused on the fundamentals and not actual tech stack implementations. - 30min to 1h final interview to discuss the position, not sure if this is always like that, maybe depends on the position itself and the final assessment of the candidate. The fact that it has 4 rounds of technical interviews, may seem demanding but it's actually a good thing for both sides. First I really enjoyed the exercises and you feel you are being evaluated in a very objective way. Second, it allows the candidate to meet many different people from the company, from different projects and teams, so when you finish the process you have a very good idea what kind of people and culture you will find if you join the company. And I must say I got a very good impression of their culture and people. Finally, I felt very welcomed, and felt they were very committed to the process. They were fast to schedule new interviews and made sure to clarify everything about the position in a very short time. For that reason it was difficult for me to decline the offer, but I had to choose for another one that I liked more because of the industry.