4 interviews

• 2 coding rounds
• 1 system design (HLD + a bit LLD)
• 1 Managerial round

The interview with the developers was really good. They were knowledgeable, engaging, and helpful at times. I received positive feedback and then moved on to the final round.

That's where my experience worsened.

As soon as the Senior Manager joined the interview, they gave no introduction and went straight into questions. Their tone was rude, unpleasant, and unprofessional, to say the least. It appeared they were engaged in some other task simultaneously, and many times they asked me to repeat my answers because they weren't listening at all. As soon as I started answering questions, within a sentence or two, I was cut off with either a sarcastic comment about how I wasn't providing a bookish definition or just another question.

About 20 minutes into the interview, their tone got even worse.

They then started asking me questions they knew I wouldn't be able to answer precisely, because I had told them the extent of work I had done earlier. They asked why I hadn't done something a senior should have in my current organization, despite knowing that I neither hold a senior position nor has my work been praised at all.

It was disheartening and disappointing to see this experience from a leadership team at a huge firm like Expedia. Highly unprofessional.

LeetCode Dynamic Programming questions, OOPS, and some Java framework-specific questions.

System Design questions revolved around my past work and a quick design of a problem statement.