Pattern Synthesis

expedia Interview Patterns

Last logged: 6 days ago

45 Reports

18 of 45 reports are Fresher/Intern-level; the rest cover senior and specialist tracks.

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Technical Focus:System DesignScalabilityLoad BalancingDatabase ScalingArray Manipulation

High Confidence (N=45 Reports Logged)

Synthesized from 45 candidate submissions for ALL.

AI Pattern Synthesis — All Roles Overview

Expedia's hiring process is highly tailored to the specific seniority and function of the role, ranging from behavioral-heavy assessments for entry-level positions to rigorous system design evaluations for mid-level engineers. Technical roles emphasize either deep project-based retrospectives for data science or high-level architecture and scalability discussions for software engineering.

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Community-Sourced Reports (45)

Active Track: ALL

Summary Log:

The candidate underwent a telephonic interview followed by four onsite rounds, including coding, managerial, and problem-solving challenges. The process evaluated both technical skills and system design capabilities, with a focus on algorithms, data structures, and real-world feature implementation.

Reported Round Breakdown:

• TechnicalMore Technical questions

Telephonic interview focused on coding problems involving string manipulation and array merging.

Questions Logged:

Implement the strStr() function to find the first occurrence of a substring (needle) in a string (haystack).
Merge two sorted arrays into one sorted array.

• TechnicalMore Technical questions

First onsite round involved solving linked list and string manipulation problems.

Questions Logged:

Merge two sorted linked lists into one sorted linked list.
Remove duplicates from a sorted linked list, ensuring only unique elements remain.
Determine if a given string can be segmented into space-separated words from a dictionary (Word Break problem).

• ManagerialMore Managerial questions

Discussion round where the candidate was asked to design a feature for updating hotel service information in the Expedia database, including validation and error handling.

Questions Logged:

Design and implement a feature to process vendor-provided hotel service information, validate the input for correctness (e.g., 'free wifi' vs. 'tree wifi'), and update the database accordingly. If the input contains errors beyond a single character difference, throw an exception to the vendor.

• TechnicalMore Technical questions

Third onsite round focused on solving a problem involving two sorted arrays, with requirements to provide both linear and logarithmic time solutions.

Questions Logged:

Find the median of two sorted arrays of different sizes. Provide both O(n) and O(log n) solutions.

• TechnicalMore Technical questions

Final onsite round involved solving combinatorial and array-based problems.

Questions Logged:

Find all unique combinations in a set of candidates where the candidate numbers sum to a target, with no duplicates in the output (Combination Sum II).
Find two numbers in an array that add up to a specific target (Two Sum).

Summary Log:

The candidate participated in three rounds: a DSA round, an HLD round, and a hiring manager round. The candidate was selected for the SDE-3 position at Expedia.

Online Assessment (OA) Format:

Platform: Hackerrank, Duration: 1.5 hours, Details: Coding screening on Hackerrank (link provided in the post).