Tripadvisor Software Engineer interview experience

The recruiter helped schedule things fast, and the first impression from the hiring manager was great—no challenge or tricky question showed up there. On site, I ended up doing four interviews. Two sessions started late without any explanation or apology, which was a small but noticeable annoyance.

One round was with a senior manager who asked me to write code by using my screen rather than relying on a codepad. The rest of the engineering conversations went well and the technical questions felt reasonable. The part that really stood out to me, though, was how much everyone dug into why I