I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (El Segundo, CA)
Interview
They have a normal interview process phone then onsite. Phone interview was pretty average the person had an instigator attitude not sign of friendliness and very harsh I did pretty well because I do usually well in the technical part. I made it to the onsite and that's when things took off to the next level. I met with 4 people. The hiring manager was a typical manager who loves to smile and BS and backstab you which is pretty common in the tech industry. The leads were the most awful part they were extermely manipulative and lazy. They were the kinds of leads we all know where instead of leading people they hire more junior people and suffocate them under themselves. The leads were american, they were all male as well so I didn't meet with any woman and I didn't see any woman even in the office. I was placed in a room where the guy next to me was shouting on the phone and the manager sais oh he is just loud as I was proposed to solve the questions which I did. They all had the worst personalities that I've seen throughout my career so culturally definitely its a very dark place where they hire you and put you in a corner and let you suffer as they are going up themselves and make more money and laugh behind your back and they think it's ok. Stay away from this place, they don't know what they are doing themselves and they don't even know how to evaluate their candidates. They put me through 6 hours of interviews and never even got back to me. It's a typical garbage company in tech so stay far and stay healthy. Hope this helps. Love and light!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Lots of questions one was about iterator of a list where you implement next, and hasNext and the other two questions were pretty easy too. String parsing, Technical part is pretty straightforward as long as you have some basics covered and understood. I wouldn't worry about that too much.
I applied online. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Needham, MA) in Aug 2018
Interview
Manager phone screen
Technical 1 hr phone
half day technical onsite
Worst part was they never gave me any answer (yes or no) NOR any feedback on my interview.
1 day of my life was wasted as I did not receive ANY inputs from either Bob or the manager.
Stay away
The whole process is so disappointing, after I applied the recruiter told me to move to next step, but no one contacted me until I wrote to a few HRs to ask why. Finally they scheduled an interview, it is called by an recruiter and she sound really arrogant. She asked me normal questions like why do I want to find a new job. I got an reject letter next, seriously?! It's the first time I heard anybody got rejected just at the recruiter stage. I guess they don't really want to hire anyone, just a waste of time.