I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (San Diego, CA) in Oct 2013
Interview
I talked to an engineer at a campus job fair and got scheduled for an interview the next day. It was a 30 minute interview and completely technical. No behavioral questions were asked.
I was asked about HashMaps, Principles of Object Orientation, Binary Search Trees, lots of runtime questions (best, worst, average case). These were all just questions where I was asked about how I would implement them and other general java conceptual questions.
They got back to me within the next week.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Part 1) Write a function that checks if a string is a palindrome.
Part 2) What if the string has a bunch of spaces, but if the same letters are still in the string, it is still a palindrome? ie) _ _ _ a _ b _ _ _ a _ -> true
Constraint: you can't trim the spaces out or pull anything out of the string. Must be checked in place.
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.
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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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