I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Newton, MA) in Oct 2013
Interview
Originally met with a recruiter at a college career fair where I was asked why someone would want to use a linked list. I was offered an on campus interview where I had to reverse a linked list of characters, while keeping words in tact. I was invited to interview at their offices in Newton. I had two interviews there. Both questions involved recursion and linked lists. After the two interviews a head recruiter came in to let me know that they would not be offering me the position, but he spent about 15 minutes going through the interview process with me and talking about my strengths and weaknesses. Overall a very positive and helpful process.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Reversing a linked list of characters while keeping words in tact.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor
Interview
I applied for this company on our campus career fair, and in the next few days they scheduled me an on-campus interview. One person interviewed me for about 45 minutes. Only technical questions, didn't ask me about my project or something else. He asked me to write code in a white board and then asked me some question about the code.He also told me there would be 3 rounds of interviews.
Then I received an email telling me I passed the interview and then came up the 2nd round - telephone interview. It's a 30-minute interview asking a quite simple question and some extensions. Then he started to introduce the job and environment of their company.
And after maybe 2 weeks, there will be an on-site interview if you pass the previous one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing difficult. The first question is about combination of HashMap and ArrayList, which the best answer should be LinkedHashMap but it's OK if you didn't know about this class.
The second interview is to find the same element in two lists
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor in Mar 2014
Interview
Two phone interviews covering:
1. Find and remove all numeric characters in a singly linked list
2. Questions about basic data structures, trade offs, use case, access complexities
3. Given string A, B, return string A - (A intersect B)
4. implement basic hash table and collision handling
5. Discuss algorithmic complexity of solutions in all cases
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing unexpected. Very standard cs101 data structures related questions.
