Expedia (IT) Software Engineer interview experience

In the first coding round, the interviewer was a supportive manager who asked two easy LeetCode questions. I struggled at first, but I eventually explained my thought process clearly enough that the conversation kept moving. He even acknowledged that my brute force approach was actually optimal, which surprised me in a good way.

The downside was that the test cases weren’t implemented correctly on his side, and we ran out of time trying to debug it together, which limited what we covered—there were only two behavioral questions. The second round felt more positive and more technical: the