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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience

January 17, 2013

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Process

One online test, followed by two phone interviews, and finally, a flight to the Newton office.

Questions

Some NLP question and 234 tree and other complex tree structure.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Tripadvisor Senior Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

Tripadvisor's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive35%

Neutral30%

Negative35%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Tripadvisor's Senior Software Engineer interview process in United States.

Tripadvisor Work Experiences

Constant reorgs, but..

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Modern Java, truly full-stack engineering. No 'architects', so you get to architect your own solutions. Engineering management is usually willing to back up engineers. Nobody ever asked me to work more than 35 hours in a week. That may vary.

Cons: Quality of work and management varies widely from team to team. Reorgs are fairly common, because the business is convinced that the right reporting chains in engineering will somehow fix a decade of bad product decisions.

Constant reorgs, but..

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Modern Java, truly full-stack engineering. No 'architects', so you get to architect your own solutions. Engineering management is usually willing to back up engineers. Nobody ever asked me to work more than 35 hours in a week. That may vary.

Cons: Quality of work and management varies widely from team to team. Reorgs are fairly common, because the business is convinced that the right reporting chains in engineering will somehow fix a decade of bad product decisions.

Ancient Tech, Hostile Culture

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance, decent pay for the Boston area, and good benefits.

Cons: Hostile environment, ancient technology, tons of tech debt, bad practices all over the place, lack of vision, struggling finances. Lots of perks and benefits were removed after the most recent layoffs.

Ancient Tech, Hostile Culture

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance, decent pay for the Boston area, and good benefits.

Cons: Hostile environment, ancient technology, tons of tech debt, bad practices all over the place, lack of vision, struggling finances. Lots of perks and benefits were removed after the most recent layoffs.

Cool place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Neat benefits, awesome coworkers, good work-life balance. CEO is great and approachable; some levels of upper management are really good and easily accessible.

Cons: Could give back to the engineering community (open sourcing). Sometimes, feature development takes precedence as it helps revenue, but at the cost of bad engineering. Have encountered that one bad apple too.

Cool place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Neat benefits, awesome coworkers, good work-life balance. CEO is great and approachable; some levels of upper management are really good and easily accessible.

Cons: Could give back to the engineering community (open sourcing). Sometimes, feature development takes precedence as it helps revenue, but at the cost of bad engineering. Have encountered that one bad apple too.

Constant reorgs, but..

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Modern Java, truly full-stack engineering. No 'architects', so you get to architect your own solutions. Engineering management is usually willing to back up engineers. Nobody ever asked me to work more than 35 hours in a week. That may vary.

Cons: Quality of work and management varies widely from team to team. Reorgs are fairly common, because the business is convinced that the right reporting chains in engineering will somehow fix a decade of bad product decisions.

3.0
Constant reorgs, but..
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Needham, Massachusetts, United States
May 8, 2020
Pros: Modern Java, truly full-stack engineering. No 'architects', so you get to architect your own solutions. Engineering management is usually willing to back up engineers. Nobody ever asked me to work more than 35 hours in a week. That may vary.
Cons: Quality of work and management varies widely from team to team. Reorgs are fairly common, because the business is convinced that the right reporting chains in engineering will somehow fix a decade of bad product decisions.

Ancient Tech, Hostile Culture

Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee

Needham, Massachusetts, United States

Pros: Good work-life balance, decent pay for the Boston area, and good benefits.

Cons: Hostile environment, ancient technology, tons of tech debt, bad practices all over the place, lack of vision, struggling finances. Lots of perks and benefits were removed after the most recent layoffs.

1.0
Ancient Tech, Hostile Culture
Senior Software Engineer • Former Employee
Needham, Massachusetts, United States
May 6, 2020
Pros: Good work-life balance, decent pay for the Boston area, and good benefits.
Cons: Hostile environment, ancient technology, tons of tech debt, bad practices all over the place, lack of vision, struggling finances. Lots of perks and benefits were removed after the most recent layoffs.

Cool place to work

Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: Neat benefits, awesome coworkers, good work-life balance. CEO is great and approachable; some levels of upper management are really good and easily accessible.

Cons: Could give back to the engineering community (open sourcing). Sometimes, feature development takes precedence as it helps revenue, but at the cost of bad engineering. Have encountered that one bad apple too.

5.0
Cool place to work
Senior Software Engineer • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
April 18, 2016
Pros: Neat benefits, awesome coworkers, good work-life balance. CEO is great and approachable; some levels of upper management are really good and easily accessible.
Cons: Could give back to the engineering community (open sourcing). Sometimes, feature development takes precedence as it helps revenue, but at the cost of bad engineering. Have encountered that one bad apple too.

Tripadvisor Interview Questions

Find Common Characters

Find the common characters that appear in all strings within a given array of strings. Return these common characters as a list.

Valid Parentheses

Determine if a string containing parentheses is valid. A valid string has matching and properly nested opening and closing parentheses.

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

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