Tripadvisor·Software Engineer

Tripadvisor Software Engineer interview experience

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Boston, MAPosted Jan 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a technical phone interview first, which included questions about OO and algorithms, and the interviewer explained the role in pretty solid detail.

After that, I moved into a take-home coding challenge with a 48-hour window.

The take-home felt relatively straightforward on paper, but I still treated it like a real engineering submission: I produced clean code, wrote a README with assumptions, and added a large set of tests—over a dozen test cases, plus JUnit tests. I also packaged everything neatly and submitted the zip with source code. The part that surprised me was how long it took to hear back; there was no feedback for up to two weeks.

Eventually I received a rejection, and I remember being extremely disappointed because I felt

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