Expedia Interview Experience for SDE 2022

Expedia’s General Selection Procedure:

• Resume Shortlisting
• Affinity Strength Assessment Test
• Coding Assessment
• Technical interview

ROUND 1: Resume Shortlisting: 

• Keep your resume simple yet clearly describing your projects and past work.

ROUND 2: Capfinnity Strength Assessment Test: 45 mins 

It is a strength-based assessment looking for a candidate aligned with Expedia’s values and principles. It was a 45 mins round, scenario based questions were asked where we need to record our reaction on a scale of 1 to 10. This was an elimination round too, so be careful when answering the questions.

Feedback report send to candidate telling what were strengths and weaknesses.

ROUND 3: Coding Assessment: 60 mins: HackerRank-based test which was around 60 mins. 

• It had 6 MCQs and 2 Coding questions.
• MCQs were based on DSA concepts, OS, and OOPs and were easy ones.
• Coding questions were on a range of Easy- Medium of Leetcode.

Online Technical Interviews were Scheduled

ROUND 4: Technical and HR Interview: 60 mins each

Interviews were conducted in Online mode and HackerRank professional IDE. The interviews were scheduled back to back.

• Interview Round 1: The Interviewer was an SDE 2 at the Gurgaon office he introduced himself and asked me to introduce myself. Then he jumped on coding questions:
• Partition equal subset-sum:https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/partition-problem-dp-18/
• 2 arrays are given one is children’s hunger and other and other is the cookie’s capacity to satisfy hunger. How many children can satisfy their hunger?
• Interview Round 2: Interviewer asked me to introduce myself and jumped right in with coding questions:
• Merge sorted linked list
• Construct a Min Stack using vector

The results came in 2 days and I was one of the selects