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      Software Engineer Interview

      1 Oct 2011
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Boston, MA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Boston, MA) in Sept 2011

      Interview

      Applied online for the Scalable Web Engineering program. Got a reply from a senior software engineer fast asking for interview the next day. First phone interview --- The first interviewer was in general very nice and polite They interview you by phone and ask you to be by a computer so you can type in a shared online whiteboard. Tell 1-2 min about yourself (that was the only question related to my CV in the entire interview process). What is the difference between array and linked list? What is a hash table? What if you had the worst hash-function ever - what is the complexity of lookup? How many dates in the 1900's in the form mm/DD/yy are palindromes? Write a function to reverse a string in the most memory efficent way? (you can code in any language you like) Follow up questions to the provided solution: - What happens if you can an odd length string - What is immutable and mutable strings in Python I then got a second phone interview, again asking for an interview the next day again. Second phone interview --- The interview had a heavy french accent which made it difficult to understand his questions and explanations. However, was in general nice and polite. In the second interview there was also no questions to my CV. It consisted of only one programming task, more difficult than the previous one. The programming task was like this: Travel alerts are displayed on the TripAdvisor website for a given region (e.g. Japan could show that there is earth quake etc.). Implement the findBestTravelAlert method (interview pasted some template code in the online whiteboard). Once code was done. There was some follow-up questions like: - What is the complexity of the code you have written - How can you optimize? how can you optimize it even further. After a week later I got an email saying they would not continue the interview process. In general the interview process was very fast. If you're not fresh out of university, you should definitely brush up your algorithms and data structures before applying for the job. Once they ask for an interview it will always be the next day, so you have very little time to prepare.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Write a memory efficient string reverse function
      2 Answers
      4

      Other Software Engineer interview reviews for Tripadvisor

      Software Engineer I Interview

      3 Feb 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Tripadvisor in Feb 2026

      Interview

      Good, although, sometimes struggling in providing you information about when interview will be leaving you wondering. Technical interview was good, I went into in uncertain as I wasn't sure about if I could solve a challenge. Recruiter was very nice and informative as well. Gutted to not progress onto next stages but they layout whole process for you and provide with you with feedback even if you fail the technical interview. I hope to re-apply soon when I become more confident with approaching technical assessments cause these do not correlate with your day to day duties as SE.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Balanced Brackets Problem in Python
      1 Answer
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      Tripadvisor response
      2mo
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. As our company continues to grow, we are appreciative of comments that highlight our strengths as well as areas we can improve upon.

      Software Engineer Interview

      10 Dec 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Tripadvisor

      Interview

      A few rounds of technical interviews and hr was done . A technical test was sent to me and an online live coding session was also set . The overall process was good

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Technical questions regarding balgorithms and ...
      Answer question
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      Tripadvisor response
      4mo
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. As our company continues to grow, we are appreciative of employee comments that highlight our strengths as well as areas we can improve upon.

      Software Engineer Interview

      13 Nov 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Portugal
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Portugal)

      Interview

      Looks like a demanding process. I didn’t get through the initial stage interview due to not having great answers for the screening questions so I can’t tell much on what comes later

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Tell us about your experience
      Answer question
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      Tripadvisor response
      4mo
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. As our company continues to grow, we are appreciative of employee comments that highlight our strengths as well as areas we can improve upon.

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