Expedia (IT)·Software Engineer

Expedia (IT) Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The first part of my interview focused on reviewing a simple piece of code and discussing it out loud—things like input/output, how to write unit tests, and what the comments meant.

After that, I had a coding question where I needed to output a stack from an unsorted stack.

Then I moved into system design: I designed a system where each user has multiple boards, and each board can be shared with others. The interviewer showed interest in how I’d model the entity schema for a database. I remember feeling that part was more about structuring the data and tradeoffs than just naming tables.

For the coding again, I took a wrong turn by using two stacks and it led to an index overflow issue. I debugged for a while, eventually deleted that approach, and quickly implemented

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