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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Needham, Massachusetts

February 1, 2015
Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I applied through a campus recruiting event, and after a week or two, I received a phone screen.

The questions were pretty easy, standard algorithms.

Then, after a couple of weeks, I got an onsite interview with them.

It consisted of four interviews, around 45 minutes each. The questions were a bit harder, and a lot of them required me to actually write out code.

Questions

Given an input stream of indeterminate length, how do you return a random member of that stream (with equal probability for each)? You're not allowed to store more than a constant number of inputs, and you can only go through the inputs once.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 12 interview experiences for the Tripadvisor Software Engineer role in Needham, Massachusetts.

Success Rate

58%
Pass Rate

Tripadvisor's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Needham, Massachusetts is on the easier side as most engineers get an offer after going through it.

Experience Rating

Positive75%
Neutral17%
Negative8%

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

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