I applied online. I interviewed at Tripadvisor in Feb 2026
Interview
Good, although, sometimes struggling in providing you information about when interview will be leaving you wondering. Technical interview was good, I went into in uncertain as I wasn't sure about if I could solve a challenge. Recruiter was very nice and informative as well. Gutted to not progress onto next stages but they layout whole process for you and provide with you with feedback even if you fail the technical interview.
I hope to re-apply soon when I become more confident with approaching technical assessments cause these do not correlate with your day to day duties as SE.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Tripadvisor
Interview
Got phone interview through campus career fair.
The interviewer was very nice and helpful. I had to code using one of the coding website.
First question was just to implement binary search. I used recursion so the interviewer stopped me and asked what the disadvantage of using recursion is.
Second question was about finding lowest common ancestor of two nodes in a tree. Then some follow-up questions regarding your solution.
After the phone interview they sent me a coding test and I had to finish in 24 hours. It was about sorting a table according to user's choice of columns. It was not hard but I didn't quite get some of the details and I guess I messed it up.
After sending my solution to them I never heard back from TripAdvisor.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you can do unlimited pre-processing, how would you find the lowest common ancestor of any two nodes in a tree, in O(1) time?
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A few rounds of technical interviews and hr was done . A technical test was sent to me and an online live coding session was also set . The overall process was good
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Looks like a demanding process. I didn’t get through the initial stage interview due to not having great answers for the screening questions so I can’t tell much on what comes later
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