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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Boston, Massachusetts

October 1, 2015
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Process

I had an on-campus interview the day after a career fair at my university. After passing the on-campus interview, I was flown out to headquarters in Boston for a workplace tour, lunch, and two more technical, one-on-one interviews.

I had a great experience all around, especially compared to my interviews with larger companies. My recruiter was prompt and friendly; travel to Boston was completely taken care of for me – all I had to do was provide two days I was free. Both of my interviewers seemed happy to be there and genuinely interested in my previous work and my solutions to their problems. Whiteboard coding was a breeze since I was able to interact with my interviewers quite a bit; it felt more like a test of my creativity and ability to express myself than a test of "how much time have you spent on LeetCode?".

Questions

Out of respect for the interviewers, I will only give general topics.

All algorithm problems were language of choice / pseudocode.

  • Basic singly linked list problem.
  • Implementation of a fairly common data structure and giving its amortized time efficiency.
  • Improve linear time search on data using implicit structure in data / heuristics.
  • Recursive algorithm to test some property of a binary tree.
  • Describe a previous project in depth and justify design choices in terms of efficiency, scalability, maintainability.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 30 interview experiences for the Tripadvisor Software Engineer role in Boston, Massachusetts.

Success Rate

17%
Pass Rate

Tripadvisor's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Boston, Massachusetts is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive57%
Neutral27%
Negative17%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Tripadvisor's Software Engineer interview process in Boston, Massachusetts.

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