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Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

21 Nov 2019

Anonymous interview candidate

Needham, MA

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Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

22 May 2025

Anonymous interview candidate

Waltham, MA

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Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

21 Nov 2019

Anonymous interview candidate

Needham, MA

Other Software Engineer(Internship) interview reviews for Tripadvisor

Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

22 May 2025

Anonymous interview candidate

Waltham, MA

No offer

Negative experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Needham, MA) in Oct 2019

Interview

I applied during career showcase. There were three interviews in total. First on video call where I was asked technical questions. Second is a take home coding assignment. The final round consists of 3 interviews: 2 technical and 1 behavioural and this took place onsite at the tripadvisor headquarter at Needham, MA.

Interview questions [7]

Question 1

Check if binary tree is symmetric.

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Question 2

write a program that detects plagiarism from two input sentences.

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Question 3

Connect 4 problem

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Question 4

Internal workings of hash maps

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Question 5

OOP fundamentals

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Question 6

Java specific questions

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Question 7

Merge LinkedList

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Tripadvisor response

Thank you for providing us with your feedback. We are sorry to hear that you did not have the best interview experience. If you’d like to further discuss how we can improve our process, please feel free to reach out.

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through other source. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Waltham, MA) in Apr 2025

Interview

They asked me what my favorite project I solved was. They also asked me about my background. Then they ended with a technical interview. It was about one hour long.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Write a Java program that takes a string s consisting of words separated by single spaces. Your task is to reverse the characters of each word in the sentence while preserving the original whitespace and the order of the words. For example, if the input string is: "reverse this" the output should be: "esrever siht"

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Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

6 Oct 2023

Anonymous interview candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Easy interview

Application

I interviewed at Tripadvisor

Interview

2 algo problem: Given an array of integers nums and an integer target, return indices of the two numbers such that they add up to target. You may assume that each input would have exactly one solution, and you may not use the same element twice. You can return the answer in any order.

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Question 1

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Tripadvisor response

Thank you for sharing your experiences and opinions about the recruitment process at TripAdvisor!

Software Engineer(Internship) Interview

5 Feb 2023

Anonymous interview candidate

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Tripadvisor in Jan 2023

Interview

Applied for the role and had a phone call. it was about behevioural and then had a coding interview the next week. the overall experience was good, since there was no OA.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Design of data structures and complexity.

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Tripadvisor response

Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. We strive to create a positive experience for all of our candidates, and we're thrilled to hear this was the case for you.