I applied through a referral in February 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-hour interviews: a. Brain teaser and OOPS with an SDE 2. b. Brain teaser and Data Structures & Algorithms with an SDE 2. c. Two LeetCode medium problems with an SDE 1. I guess he didn't understand Big O notation well and argued with me. d. Manager round - Behavioral questions. e. Data Structures & Algorithms with an SDE 2. She came with a question printed on a page and a half. I asked her one clarifying 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 for an offer, but they said, "Based on the feedback, the hiring manager is going to continue to look for other candidates."

I know Expedia pays its engineers well but with no stock options. I gave an SDE 2 interview with Microsoft, and they offered me a great salary. I felt I performed better in the Expedia interview. Good luck, Expedia! You lost a great engineer.

I signed an NDA and respect that.

Focus on LeetCode and Object-Oriented Programming (OOPS) for the coding portion of interviews.