Expedia Groups Interview Experience for SDE-1 2021

Profile:

Education: New grad, Tier 1

Interview

Round 1(Online Assessment): Online Assessment on HackerRank, consisting of 2 coding questions & 10 MCQs. The total time given was 100 mins. One easy hashmap easy question and one hard DP question (bit manipulation)

Virtual Interviews

Round 2(DSA - 45 min): The interview started with a brief introduction, then the interviewer asked two coding questions:

• Basic Staircase problem (https://leetcode.com/problems/climbing-stairs/)
• Some string problem (didn't recall exactly), easy LC question

As both the questions were easy, the interview ended within 20m

Round 3(System Design - 45 min): The interviewer directly started with the lld design question: I have to write the class implementation

• Got dropped due to some internet issues, when joined after 10m, the interviewer was there. 
• But due to a shortage of time, was not able to complete all the parts.

Round 4(Behaviour - 45 min): The interviewer started with some basic HR questions to check my strength. The interview ended within 30m

Verdict: After two days, got a mail that I'm selected