I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Expedia Group (Bellevue, WA) in Feb 2019
Interview
I applied through a referral in Feb 2019.
1. Interview with a Senior SDE on the team via Collabedit shared editor. It went well and I was invited onsite.
2. Onsite - Five 1-hr interviews.
a. Brain Teaser, OOPS with an SDE 2.
b. Brain Teaser, Data Structures & Algorithms with an SDE 2.
c. Two Leetcode medium problems from SDE1. I guess he doesn't understand the big O notations well and argued with me.
d. Manager round - Behavioral Questions.
e. Data Strucutres & Algorithms with an SDE 2. She came with a question printed on a paper that is a page and half. I asked her one question which she agreed to and while I was working through the problem she changed the question.
I managed to solve all the problems with little to no help. I was hoping an offer and they said based on the feedback, the hiring manager is going to continue to look for other candidates.
I know Expedia pays their engineer nuts with no stock options. I gave an SDE 2 interview with Microsoft and they offered me great salary. I felt I performed better in Expedia interview. Good Luck Expedia! You lost a great engineer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I signed an NDA and respect that. But, focus on Leetcode, OOPS for the coding portion of the interviews.
There are actually 4 rounds of interviews other than screening call with the recruiter. I got assessment invite after the screening call and after clearing the assessment got invite for 3 interviews each 1hr. 3 interviews are technical containing questions from previous experiences, coding problem, system design. Got rejected in the final interview
This was a screening call at the start with the recruiter, where she asked several questions about my previous experience and background and explained about the company and about the job requirements.
I applied online. I interviewed at Expedia Group (Springfield, MO) in Sep 2024
Interview
Started with Initial phone screen, then hiring manager round. Final round was with two principal engineers. The whole process was easy to moderate, generally knowing about our experience and analyzing our skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked basic Java questions, OOP's and gave a problem to solve- It was a sliding window approach based question.