I applied through university. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Needham, MA)
Interview
1. On campus Interview 2. Coding Challenge 3. Three 1 hour onsite interviews
The whole process was smooth. There weren't any pointless recruiter calls. They treated the onsite candidates really well. The 3 onsite interviews were in the morning. Then they served lunch. TripAdvisor has a free company dining hall/cafeteria similar to those in Silicon Valley. After lunch, there was a tour, a tech talk from a high level manager and a panel to ask new grad software engineers about their experience.
Overall it was the best interview experience I've had in Boston/NYC and one of the better ones compared to interviews at Bay area and Seattle HQ companies.
The onsite interviews consist of 2 algorithms/data structures and 1 pure behavioral interview. The behavioral interview felt like a natural conversation and was very pleasant. He asked about projects, experience and what I thought about TripAdvisor.
My only complaint is that one of the interviewers focused more on math proofs of the programming question than the actual programming question. The actual question and all other tech questions asked were typical algorithms/data structures questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Prove mathematically why your algorithm runs in O(n log (n)) time (show the summation). Explain what O(n) means mathematically.
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.
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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
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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
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