Tripadvisor·Software Engineer

Tripadvisor Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Sep 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ended up getting pulled into the process quickly after a recruiter found my resume and scheduled an interview around my school visit.

The first part of that conversation revolved around my project experience, and I also had to cover basic data structure knowledge.

The interview then shifted into coding problem-solving focused on finding a common parent node. What I remember most wasn’t the technical difficulty so much as how the interaction felt: when I got stuck and tried to talk through my approach, the interviewer didn’t really engage, didn’t communicate clearly, and wouldn’t offer hints—leaving me alone while I was trying to reason my way back to a solution. I got the impression they wanted to see me figure it out

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