I submitted a resume through Scienceworks (the recruiting website of my university). Maybe 2 months later, I got an email from TripAdvisor saying they'd like to do a phone interview. Surprised, I gladly accepted and made an appointment.
The time came, and I didn't get a call. An hour later, I got an email for a reschedule. The second time, the same thing happened, and they sent me an email right before telling me they had to reschedule again.
So finally, the third time, I actually got a phone interview with them. The interviewer was one of their engineers, and he had a thick (French?) accent that I could barely understand. After some difficulty, he got me started on a coding problem online. I had some trouble understanding what exactly he wanted me to do, so I sat there a while, coding for maybe 30 minutes, until it was clear to both me (and him) that I didn't really know what I was doing. So I stopped.
He asked me to explain what my algorithm did (which was hard to do given that I didn't finish), as well as the Big Oh.
Naturally, I got an email right afterward saying they would not be proceeding with my application, thanking me for my time, and that I needed to get a bit more coding experience.
Given some Java code representing a travel alert system, write one of the functions that returns the most relevant travel alert.
The following metrics were computed from 2 interview experiences for the Tripadvisor Software Engineering Intern role in Newton, Massachusetts.
Tripadvisor's interview process for their Software Engineering Intern roles in Newton, Massachusetts is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.
Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Tripadvisor's Software Engineering Intern interview process in Newton, Massachusetts.