Tripadvisor·Software Engineer

Tripadvisor Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Lisbon, Lisbon DistrictPosted Mar 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I went through a technical interview with a team member for what turned out to be an MLOps role.

We spent the conversation on my background across Ops and ML, and it went smoothly until the topic shifted to a technical assessment. What threw me off was that I hadn’t been told earlier—through the recruiter back-and-forth or the scheduling messages—that I would be doing a whiteboard-style task.

I accepted the challenge anyway and tried to show my thinking as I worked through it, especially since it had been years since I’d been doing whiteboard coding from the Ops side. I felt good when I finished, but the interviewer pushed back and said I didn’t know the basics of Python. I left feeling

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