Expedia Software Development Engineer Interview Questions & Reviews

Interview Details – Applied on the career website and got scheduled for a telephone interview within a week. After the phone screen, got called for an on-site interview in Bellevue. Met and interviewed with the team - developers, manager and director. Interview lasted around 5-6 hours. Questions were varied - covered computer science concepts and some programming questions. The interviewers were professional in their approach and ensured that I was comfortable through the whole process.

Interview Details – I went to a career-fair and was asked to do a on-campus 45 min interview the next day. I was contacted about a month later for a 4-hour on-site interview. Expedia is a JAVA company even though they said to use any language I am comfortable with to write my code. I chose c++ and asked questions like asking for the length of the array, they said it will not be a parameter value which forces me to use a different language and not one that I initially chose and am comfortable with.

Interview Details – First I got a call from Sr Recruiter for phone screening. First interview is HR type containing some behavioral questions and description about position. For the second round I got pair of question and she told me to code them and return back within 45 min. Third round was with Sr Developer. That was mostly related to scalability question. I got rejection after third round.

Interview Details – Phone Interview with a Project Manager where I was asked a coding question and a design question (don't remember what the questions were). I passed the phone interview and they flow me out to their HQ (all expenses paid for).

5 rounds of interviews starting at 9am.

Round 1: I thought I botched this interview because I was asked several questions on C, Java and Python (advantages and disadvantages of each language). I was then asked one coding question on a modified queue data structure where one class is only responsible for insertion and another for removal of data.

Round 2: We talked about one of my projects for the entire duration of the interview. The interviewer was completely fascinated with my project and asked me to map out the system flow on the whiteboard.

Round 3: 3 coding questions involving Texas-Hold Em: write a method to find a pair, three cards, and a straight.

Round 4: Team manager lunch interview. Just chatted the whole time. Very relaxed experience.

Round 5: Rotated binary search question (if you look through the interview questions on this site, someone else may have posted this question), and a design question for a parking garage.

Interview Details – The hiring manager called me the previous day to schedule a time. One of the development managers called me at the agreed time. He asked my previous experiences. Asked few questions while I was explaining my projects. Then he gave me a problem to solve. Converting two D char array to a int array with space efficient as I can.