I interviewed in March 2014 for an Android engineering position in their Palo Alto office.

The interview process was very thorough, but they were not interested in my personality or the experience I was bringing. I was given back-to-back programming questions and asked to solve them on a whiteboard.

I had the first phone interview with the hiring manager, who, after talking about my experience and background for about 15 minutes, went to CollabEdit and gave me a program to solve. Two days later, I had another phone interview with an Android engineer, who went over some basic Android questions and a simple program to solve.

After a week, I went onsite for a "face-to-face" interview. The office felt kind of small and very clumsy. I was taken to a room where the first interviewer asked me some Android questions, nothing out of the ordinary. The next interview was a remote interview with someone from the Boston office who asked a few Android questions and a coding question involving a linked list. The third was also remote; I was asked Android questions and given a program to solve. The fourth was with an iOS engineer who asked a programming question and asked me to solve it on a whiteboard.

Next, I had an interview with another company from whom I received an offer the very next day. Meanwhile, at TripAdvisor, I was left in the dark. The recruiter did not have any clue what was going on, and the hiring manager was out of the country. They did not have the courtesy to say whether I was selected or not, even after I sent email after email. So, I accepted the other offer I already had in hand.

Three days later, the hiring manager called and said they wanted to give me an offer, but the offer was less than what I had already accepted. So, I rejected the offer.

They were not courteous towards the candidate and treated me as if they were doing me a favor by considering me for their job. The hiring manager was arrogant and also sounded like he was doing me a favor by giving me the offer. In the end, even if the offer had been higher, I wouldn't have worked for him.

It looks like they are still interviewing for the position, as I am still getting third-party recruiter calls/emails for the same position, even after three months.

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