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Updated Feb 22, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Software Engineer Intern at TripAdvisor
Posted Feb 22, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Sep 2011 (took 2 days)
Their interviews are very algorithm heavy. Be sure to brush up on your knowledge of trees, hashes, and operational complexity. They start off with easy questions but ramp up very quickly. Be sure to understand what you are talking about because they have VERY good engineers and they WILL call you out on issues and problems that you make.
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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Software Engineering Intern at TripAdvisor
Posted Feb 11, 2012
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4.0
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2011 in Newton, MA (took 4+ weeks)
I submitted a resume through Scienceworks (the recruiting website of my university). Maybe 2 months later I got an email from TripAdvisor saying they'd like to do a phone interview. Surprised, I gladly accept and make an appointment. The time comes, and I don't get a call. An hour later, I get an email for a reschedule. The second time, the same thing happens and they send me an email right before telling me they have to reschedule again.
So finally, the third time, I actually get a phone interview with them. The interviewer is one of their engineers, and he has a thick (French?) accent that I could barely understand. After some difficulty, he gets me started on a coding problem online. I have some trouble understanding what exactly he wants me to do, so I sit there a while, coding for maybe 30 minutes, until it's clear to both me (and him) that I don't really know what I'm doing. So I stop. He asks me to explain what my algorithm does (which was hard to do given that I didn't finish), as well as the Big Oh.
Naturally, I get an email right afterward saying they will not be proceeding with my application, thanking me for my time, and that I need to get a bit more coding experience.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Engineer Intern at TripAdvisor
Posted Feb 7, 2012
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2.0
Easy Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2012 (took a day)
I just take the interview on campus, and now they ask me to Boston to take another interview. Two people hold the interview, they are nice guys. They just ask me a question on binary search and ask me to write the binary search program on whiteboard. And another question is about a tree structure, find the shallowest ancestor of two nodes in tree.
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Software Engineer Intern at TripAdvisor
Posted Jan 4, 2012
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2011 in Newton, MA (took a day)
Met company employee at university recruiting night.
Stuck around after and handed resume to the employee
Employee boasted about the work culture, laid back easy going etc.
Took resume, and sent email the next day about a phone interview.
Had 1 phone phone interview and it was brief, interviewer was extremely rude, repeatedly told me I didn't know enough because I hadn't taken the class even though I repeatedly answered the questions correctly.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Intern Software Engineer at TripAdvisor
Posted Jun 19, 2011
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in Newton, MA (took a day)
Phone Interview, set up a browser session where both users share a common workspace with each other. Asked to write methods in Java/C++/whatever language you are comfortable with.
Asked general questions on Data Structures material (Hash Table, Sorting, Tree), followed by Q/A
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