J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Vrbo
Entretien
Process was pretty much like others said. Mine was somewhat expedited because I was interviewing with another company at same time. Overall mixed experience. I always got the feeling that the company doesn't pay very well, but I played along. The interview process was mostly transparent but confusing at times. I was told some manager wanted to speak to me first on the phone (not an interview) to see if I'm a potential fit after the phone interview passed, but that got cancelled the next day.
On-site was more difficult than I thought but people were nice and seemed smart. The big shocker came at the end. I was offered the job the day after given "very positive feedback", only to be told two hours later that I didn't meet the bar for senior engineer, that I could only come on as a regular engineer. The pay would be quite far off from my last job, they basically expected me to say no so I declined the next day.
I think it has to do with the fact that they didn't think they could come close to my other offer, so someone higher up decided to save the trouble of having a manager meeting to find a team, getting it approved, etc.
Anyway, seems like a good company and the people there probably enjoy it. Just be aware that it may not be for you if you are a more established dev.
Questions d'entretien [1]
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Algo/design/behavior/resume questions. Some are difficult and unlike the most typical asked
J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Vrbo (Austin, TX) en déc. 2019
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I was referred to a position by my friend. Recruiter scheduled a call and it was 15-20 minutes. Later I was scheduled for the telephonic round.
Telephonic round: first half hour was behavioral and some high level spring related questions. The second half was the coding exercise on the codepair. It was about spiral matrix.
Onsite: NDA
Had 4 - 1 hour interviews with 1 person each hour.
1st Interview, 15 min conversation about vrbo and my work. Then jumped to the technical question. It was a question i would never have expected. It makes you think how you can make use the basic data types for efficiently storing data. I think i did alright on this one.
2nd Interview : leet code medium Array question
3rd Interview: small system design, algo about trees, Several tech questions java/spring etc.,.
4th Interview : Behavioral in first half. OOD in the second half. I wish i had more time to understand this, the interviewer did not give me much time on this one. I think i lost on this one.
Interview tips: They are not looking for correctness of a solution, they are looking to understand your thought process. Please ask as many questions as possible before answering the interview and don't jump to solutions even if you know. Explain as many solutions as possible and why you chose the solution.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Spiral matrix, Arrays, Trees, memory utilization using data types, system design, ood
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Vrbo (Denver, CO) en mars 2019
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I contacted a recruiter in January. He met with me for an onsite tour and then a drink with two potential hiring managers. A couple months later, I interviewed onsite, which consisted of (4? 5?) interviews, all but 1 of them being technical. They were very quick to get the details of an offer to me - it took about 2-3 business days at most.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Standard cracking the coding interview style stuff. This is pretty disappointing since such questions have almost no correlation to real world work. But that's pretty standard.
For the senior position, only one interview really focused on system design, but over half of the interview was spent writing code and not talking about scalability tradeoffs. I really would have preferred that bit to be more difficult, as they offered me a senior role without grilling me on many important software engineering at scale concepts.
J'ai postulé en personne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Vrbo (Austin, TX) en sept. 2018
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Internal transfers are tough now . Everybody is expected to have practical experience on something they have learned and even certified which only shows how Expedia is influencing it's culture.
