I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Newton, MA) in Feb 2011
Interview
I had one phone interview that involved coding up a binary search tree and implementing an insert() and findSumAtLevel(int n) routine. I then went into their Newton office where I was interviewed by three engineers. Questions focussed a lot on binary search trees (so study up on in-order-traversal and other related data structures and algorithms).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a routine to print the numbers 1 to 100 and back to 1 again without using any loops.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Boston, MA) in Nov 2010
Interview
Started with a recruiter contacting me for a Software Engineers position.Had a telephonic interview where they asked design pattern.Then asked to write code for Fibonacci for million numbers.This was followed by onsite interview.
The onsite interview started with Hr asking me questions relating to my knowledge about tripadvisor.Basically he wanted to see how much I know about the company and the position.Then a person from software engineering team gave me a coding task of writing web crawler .This led to discussion about various algorithms (dfs, bfs).The coding task involved recursion. We discussed the approach I would be following.He expected write the code with exact syntax for a language.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a web crawler to count number of pages in a website