Expedia Interview Experience

Some Backstory: I got to know About Expedia through the Campus hiring process as it visited our campus on August 5, 2022, for the role of Software Development Engineering intern and the eligible branches are CS, IT, ECE, and related trades.

Capffinity strength Round: Capffinity strength Round was held on 8th August 2022, it is just a basic personality checking assessment in which they gave you some questions which is related to work-life balance for example “if you had a work done on a certain day and your teammate is unable to do due to some family problem how would you handle this situation” they gave you multiple answers you need to put them in order. it is one of the easiest rounds but don’t take this lightly because the shortlisting was done after this round.

Tip/Suggestion: Complete the assessment within the time limit provided (in my case the time limit was 45 minutes) and keep yourself positive throughout the assessment.

After the capffinity round, the shortlisting was done for coding assessment. Approx about 160 students were shortlisted for the coding round.

Coding Round: The coding Round was held on 11 August 2022 on the Hackerrank Platform. The format of the question is 

• Coding question: 2
• MCQ(related to C++ , DSA) – 6
• The 2 Coding Question was Easy to Medium Level of gfg and leetcode. so in my option practice well for such questions and do the hands-on practice of DSA. And the 6 MCQs were from Tress, DFS, find Output, Stack, and Queues (pop, push)  type questions.
• my Coding question was related to an array and the second one related to an array of complementary pairs.

Question(Not Exact):- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/count-pairs-in-an-array4145/1

Final interview Round: 1st technical interview: After the coding round total of 48 students were selected for the interview. We have 2 technical interviews 60 min each and the interviews were decided 1 day before on the Expedia portal.

• It was my first Technical interview Round and I am quite nervous. The interviews were friendly they explained to me how to interview process goes they first introduce themself then they asked me to introduce myself and then  I have to solve two DSA Questions my first question was whether I needed to implement the approach for 

Question: Find the element before which all the elements are smaller than it, and after which all are greater

link: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/find-the-element-before-which-all-the-elements-are-smaller-than-it-and-after-which-all-are-greater-than-it/

• It was of the medium level question so I tried to first give the approach and then the interviewer asked me to write code was able to write it then she asked me to optimize the time and space complexity I gave another approach then she again asked for more optimized code and at that time  I was puzzled because I don’t know any further optimization, so from this I got to know time and space complexity for the Expedia interview is must-have in knowledge.

My second question sorry I could remember it yet it was also related to the array.

2nd technical interview: Then I move to the second technical interview the interviewer was very humble and supportive and polite also. then he asked about the data structure I am familiar with and then he asked about trees or stack Queues I replied trees but he couldn’t ask me the question related to trees. so my first question was

• To merge two sorted linked lists so that the third linked list is also sorted. it is a medium-level of question.

link: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/merge-two-sorted-linked-lists/

• Then my Second Question was C Program to find the power of a number without using the pow() function.

link: https://slaystudy.com/c-program-to-find-the-power-of-a-number-without-using-pow-function/

and after that, the result was announced I couldn’t make it to get an internship but yes I got an interview experience. and it was my biggest motivation.