I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Boston, MA) in Oct 2015
Interview
I did 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 tour of the workplace, 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 & friendly; travel out to Boston was completely taken care of for me- all I had to do was give two days I was free. Both of my interviewers seemed happy to be there and genuinely interested in my previous work & 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 spend on leetcode?".
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
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 & give 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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Tripadvisor in Feb 2026
Interview
Good, although, sometimes struggling in providing you information about when interview will be leaving you wondering. Technical interview was good, I went into in uncertain as I wasn't sure about if I could solve a challenge. Recruiter was very nice and informative as well. Gutted to not progress onto next stages but they layout whole process for you and provide with you with feedback even if you fail the technical interview.
I hope to re-apply soon when I become more confident with approaching technical assessments cause these do not correlate with your day to day duties as SE.
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A few rounds of technical interviews and hr was done . A technical test was sent to me and an online live coding session was also set . The overall process was good
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Application
I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Portugal)
Interview
Looks like a demanding process. I didn’t get through the initial stage interview due to not having great answers for the screening questions so I can’t tell much on what comes later
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