Tripadvisor interview questions

I was contacted about a week after submitting my resume through their online resume repository -- I also knew an employee who submitted my resume as well. Got a phone interview: ~30 minutes long, a week later. My background: I'm a senior with 7 months real world RoR and Spring development experience -- BUT I have not taken the Algorithms & Design course yet and this is what screwed me over! I'm in a co-op school, so this class would have been completed by the time the Fall internship would have started, but that didn't matter, I had to know it then and there. Pros: interviewer was nice, polite, and patient (thank God). Got my rejection 2 days after the interview, so I didn't have to wait long. Cons: It seemed like he didn't even review my resume when, before my coding exercise began, he asked me if "I wrote code in Java"... which he would have learned by reading the first paragraph in my resume. If you have not taken a course on algorithms and design, I'd suggest learning what you can on your own before the interview. Got real world experience? They probably don't care much, so revert back to your knowledge of computer science!