Expedia Test Manager Interview Questions & Reviews

Interviewed Oct 2011 in Bellevue, WA (took 6 weeks)

Applied on-line via the ExpediaJobs website. Recieved an automated response and a personal followup one week later. It took another week to set up a phone screen with the Dev Manager. Phone screen went very smoothly -- he seemed very knowledgable about Test and open about the team's need at the moment.

10 days later I had a full day of interviews. I am local to their HQ so no travel arrangements were needed. Every person I talked to had the words 'Senior' 'Director' or 'Architect' in their title -- they asked a lot of very probing questions around people management style, fit for team, Agile experience -- only one person had a technical question for me. The Test Architect drew a block diagram of a system on the board and had me describe my approach to testing it. The system was fairly simple but interacted with a lot of 3rd party back-end services. The intent of the question seemed to be to see if I could indentify where the complexity of this system was -- and where I would focus my time in testing.

2 weeks later found out that this position was filled internally but that transition had opened up another Test Manager position -- could I come in *again* for another round of interviews? Shorter this time around -- the hiring manager took me to lunch and had two other testers ask technical questions similar to the first round. Be prepared to think on your feet and ask lots of clarifying questions.

Perceptions of the place: Beautiful building and surroundings! The people are very dedicated to Agile methods and are moving quickly on short development cycles.