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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      6 Apr 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Newton, MA
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Newton, MA) in Apr 2012

      Interview

      My resume was submitted by a friend of mine that was an employee. I had one phone interview and two onsite interviews. The office is two older buildings - I found the environment very friendly, although a bit dark. The interviews were all coding problems. At no time did they ask about any previous projects, experience, or specific designs. The people were pleasant.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Given a binary search tree, write code that finds a count of duplicate values (in other words, the number of nodes that would have to be removed to make the set unique).
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Design an alert system. You have 500,000 hotels you represent, and about 250,000 are visited each day. You want to track hotel page visits such that, if more than 10 visitors per a) 5 minutes, b) 1 hour, and c) 24 hours occur, then a (different for each time period) "alert" appears when someone visits one of those "hot" hotel pages. Don't worry about the UI part, just design the underlying alert system. Then optimize your solution for space.
      4 Answers
      5

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      Tripadvisor response
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      We’re sorry to hear about your experience. Your feedback is valuable, and we will address it with our recruiting team to ensure improvements. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.