Expedia (IT) Frontend Engineer interview experience

Instead, the interviewer shared an existing React component and asked me to walk through it like I was doing a real PR review.

My job was to read what was there, explain what the component was doing, and identify performance issues. The emphasis was on reasoning through the code—spotting inefficiencies and calling out what could be improved—more than implementing something from scratch.

It was a refreshing change from the usual coding-heavy interviews, and it made me rely on attention to detail and how I’d critique real production code. I left feeling like my impact would hinge on whether I