Tripadvisor·Software Engineer

Tripadvisor Software Engineer interview experience

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Boston, MAPosted Apr 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience started with a relatively short technical interview where they focused on fundamentals and basic problem-solving.

I got questions on Java knowledge like the difference between hash tables and hash maps, and what the best way was to find an element in a sorted array. Then they moved into a coding problem.

Another part of the loop tested my boundaries in a different way—there was a database design discussion where the interviewer seemed to misread everything I proposed. It felt like I wasn’t being evaluated so much as judged against a rigid idea they already had, even though I had a fresh approach.

For me, the hardest disappointment was later: I had a long take-home assignment, finished what I thought

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