I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Tripadvisor in Dec 2015
Interview
Very rude and condescending interviewer. Without any introduction, he just asked me to open a browser and type the collabedit link as he read it. And then after he finished describing the coding problem. I tried to have a conversation with him about different approaches and guess what, whenever I asked him about his opinion on an approach, he just threw one sentence back at me: 'what do YOU think?' After several back and forth I realized he had no wish talking to me at all so I just started scratching and trying to solve the problem on paper. And there was about TEN SILENT minutes without anyone talking at all!!
So I solved the problem and described it to him, during the whole time he didn't even make one sound. And that was it. That was my very first tech phone interview and it was a disaster.
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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Oxford, Inglaterra) in Oct 2015
Interview
I applied online and after few days I received an e-mail from the recruiter to fix a skype interview. The interview was about 20 minutes and asked about my lasts experiences. After that, I had an one hour interview with a software engineer. He asked general questions about data structures (difference between array and list, how hashmap works, etc.). Finally he gave me one easy problem to solve on shared screen. I answered well to most of the questions and solved the problem, but I received a reject with the feedback that "I am not yet at the level required on the Computer Science side". I have to mention that I have a PhD in Computer Science. They don't care about your studies or experience, just to answer perfect to questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
what is the difference between array and list? operations time
The first round was a hour long skype technical interview, and then the second was a coding challenge, and the third was an in-person 3 hour long interview. The skype interview was pretty simple, about vectors and basic algorithmic questions. The coding challenge was also not too difficult.