Expedia Group Software Development Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Around 180-200 students applied for the position. 45 students were selected for the coding test.

Round: Test
Experience: There were 3 questions. The difficulty level was moderate. I did 2 questions and got selected for the next round. 13 students were selected for the skype interview.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 3

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: This skype round basically checks our strength in the computer science basics. There were questions on data structures, databases, algorithms. They were moderate to difficult in nature. 7 people went into the next skype round which is also technical in nature.

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: In this round, first, there was a coding question which I needed to write and execute in a shared environment. Then, there was basically a detailed testing of the concepts I had used in projects. As the majority of my projects were on Android, I was interviewed in Android from here on. There were some questions on software design principles as well. 2 students were selected from this round for the final round.

Round: Technical + HR Interview
Experience: In this final round, there was a brief discussion about my projects and some questions in between about my projects. After this discussion, I was told to showcase my skills other than technical. I was made to pitch my startup idea with the interviewer being my probable customer. So, one can expect his management or leadership skills also to be tested in this round. Both the candidates were selected.

College Name: The LNM Institute Of Information Technology, Jaipur

Eligibility criteriaAbove 7 CGPABig Basket interview preparation:Topics to prepare for the interview - Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Aptitude, OOPSTime required to prepare for the interview - 3 monthsInterview preparation tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Must do Previously asked Interview as well as Online Test Questions.
Tip 2 : Go through all the previous interview experiences from Codestudio and Leetcode.
Tip 3 : Do at-least 2 good projects and you must know every bit of them.

Application resume tips for other job seekers

Tip 1 : Have at-least 2 good projects explained in short with all important points covered.
Tip 2 : Every skill must be mentioned.
Tip 3 : Focus on skills, projects and experiences more.

Final outcome of the interviewSelected

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: Must have one year of experience. Must be Good in Data Structures and algorithms. Must be from a reputed college
Tips: Nothing in our hands

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude are medium level, english are bit tricky, you have to get more than 20 to pass this round
Tips: Prepare well from indiabix.com, basics of aptitude and see comprahensive passages for english
Duration: 1 hour
Total Questions: 40

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: There are so many questions, all are mainly focus on your problem solving skills, mainly from Data Structures and Algorithms.

1. Reverse a linked list
2. there are considerably large files, find the intersection of them.
3. find union of them.
4. binary search tree traversal
Tips: Practice well, writing efficient code is necessary

Skills: Problem Solving, Data Structures And Algorithms, Python, LOGICAL THINKING ABILITIES

Round: Resume Shortlist
Experience: They selected 10 students from our college from CS and IT .They are looking for guys with extra projects done during college .App development will be a bonus ,contribution to open source and competitive programming will help for shortlisting.
Some of my friends had research papers published and they too got selected.

Round: Test
Experience: Have to write code snippet for 4 questions in 45 minutes
1.Difference between hour hand and minute hand
2.longest palindromic sub string.
3.Product Array puzzle
4.Some question related to matrix

Tips: All question were from geeksforgeeks
So practice it well ..u will make through it

Round: Test
Experience: Long Discussion on projects
They will scan each and every line of your Resume ,so dont write bullshits..
I wrote about interest in AI and got screwed..Discussion on college projects and final year project.
Then asked me to design a snake and ladder game OOPS concepts
Told me to find sum of all elements of sub matrix..(hint pre-processing the matrix)
Asked me about sessions and cookies
Gave a query to write on database indexing (dont remember exactly)
Asked me the code of the difference between hour hand and minute hand and extended it wid the second hand
Asked me as how to implement a dictionary
asked about TRIES ,CODE SNIPPET ON THE SHARED DOCS
One of my friend was asked to implement (set) of STL
Tips: The interviewer was cool guy..helped me a lot always made me comfortable.Interact with them as much as possible

Round: Test
Experience: Wid the CTO of the company .
Started wid the projects again .ACID properties,Database transactions,Concurrency Control
Optimization in database.
Then he asked me to code a function
Given a hash function applied on letters of English words ,un-hash it.Took me 45 minutes to reach the solution ,he helped me a lot.
Asked me to write the code for diameter of a binary tree
Asked me write the code for Boolean Matrix
One of my friend was asked to a question in which there was a bug in a m*n matrix and we have to find the bug(hint dfs or bfs)
Tips: keep calm ,,just keep talking ad he will help u a lot...

Round: HR
Experience: This was the toughest round for me...I had cleared all the rounds but they rejected me in the HR round ,,,dont know where I screwed..Learn every thing of Zomato..
They offered me an internship and thereafter they would look to give a PPO ...!!!lets see what happens

Skills: Coding Skills And Knowledge On Data Structures
Duration: 3
College Name: NIT Srinagar

Skills:
College Name: NA

Round: Test
Experience:
1) A, B and C jointly thought of engaging themselves in a business venture. It was agreed that A would invest Rs. 6500 for 6 months, B, Rs. 8400 for 5 months and C, Rs. 10,000 for 3 months. A wants to be the working member for which, he was to receive 5% of the profits. The profit earned was Rs. 7400. Calculate the share of B in the profit.

2) Convert

Round: Test
Experience: Aptitude was quite easy they just asked us basic questions from Math,logical reasoning and english
Tips: Just think well before u do..
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Questions: 40

Round: Behavioural Interview
Experience: It was face to face .. the interviewee asked questions from our resume... Since I m from computer science background they asked some technical questions..

Tips: Beware filling ur resume.. they will ask every stuff that you have in resume

Round: Technical Interview
Experience: Discussion about my project that i vr done in my final year.they asked me what was my role in my project

College Name: Sri ganesh college of engineering and technology