For context, I was an SE in the Lodging stack. I'm sure it's very different elsewhere.
It had the typical "big company" stuff like decent budgets, some nice perks (e.g., travel stipend), good benefits, and they weren't shy about spending money to make money. People were generally nice enough and trying hard, though a fair number were just coasting.
It's big enough to get lost in. Finding the right person to talk to can take forever. There are 17 different systems for basically anything (deployment, monitoring, auth, you name it).
Of those 17 systems, 19 are deprecated and being replaced by the 20th that doesn't actually exist yet but will be SUPER AWESOME when it gets here.
Endless projects to rearrange the internal systems to match the org chart.
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I applied online through their outdated system and received a HackerRank assessment two days later. I achieved 100% on all HackerRank questions, but they have since ghosted me. I have since rejected them because I received an offer elsewhere. The Ha
I was contacted by a recruiter for Expedia Montreal. The first phase of the interview went well. The questions covered Java core, Hibernate, and Spring. I was told that I passed the first round. They scheduled a 3-hour video interview, but they did
Online Test: * MCQs on almost all topics (DS, Algo, C, C++, OS, DBMS, Quant, Verbal) * 2 coding problems: 1. Rat in a maze (Basic Recursion Problem). 2. Given an undirected graph, check whether it is a tree or not (Easy BFS problem). F2F Te