I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Tripadvisor in Sep 2013
Interview
I got the interview campus career fair, and get an on campus interview after that, on career fair, the employer asked me some basic question in OOP and in java, such as the difference in abstract class and interface, some big O in sorting. A little bit system level knowledge included, such as the stack during recursion
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing unexpected, Find error in a page of java code, the error I found is the uninitialized variable and some error in a loop at edge condition.
A question using binary search
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tripadvisor
Interview
I applied through career faire on campus. Get a email of a online coding test on Codility after a about week. I was asked to code two question in 40 mins using either C++, Java or C#. The questions are not very hard, and you can practice before you start the real test on Codility.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing to difficult. Just make sure you solution is OK for any extreme input, such as data in very large size.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Ottawa, ON) in Oct 2013
Interview
I gave them my resume in a job fair in our university (University of Ottawa) and got an email that evening that they can set up a first interview on-campus the next day. The email suggested that if I don't have time the next day, I can schedule a phone interview later. I went on for the on-campus interview.
The interview was a technical one, and lasted 30 minutes. The interviewer was a developer himself, who had just entered the company 6 months ago.
We have a very large amount of text files. We want to write a program that collects all unique phone numbers from the text files. How do you design the software? Tell me the steps. How do you collect phone numbers, assuming they have a XXX-XXX-XXXX pattern? Write the code for collecting phone numbers on a peace of paper