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Software Engineer Interview Experience

September 1, 2013
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I got an interview at the campus career fair and an on-campus interview afterward. At the career fair, the employer asked me some basic questions in OOP and Java, such as the difference between an abstract class and an interface, and some Big O notations for sorting. A little bit of system-level knowledge was included, such as the stack during recursion.

Questions

Nothing unexpected. I found an error in a page of Java code. The errors I found were an uninitialized variable and some errors in a loop at edge conditions.

A question using binary search.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 168 interview experiences for the Tripadvisor Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

13%
Pass Rate

Tripadvisor's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive44%
Neutral39%
Negative17%

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

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