Expedia SDE 2 Interview Experience | Reject
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Location : Gurugram

Round 0: OA
Do not recall the questions but it was fairly easy

Round 1 : HM
Discussed about my projects at my current firm and went to the breadth of tech stacks mentioned on my resume instead of going deep into a topic . Cleared the round and got further rounds scheduled the same day .

Round 2: Design
This round was scheduled for 1 hour but got extended to ~2 hr . Question was to design a hotel search system and display prices for a specific checkin and checkout date . Prices can be bifurcated into tax, base price etc. Also there was a requirement to format the price based on the input currency
First HLD was discussed and then moved to LLD. According to me I gave a fair design HLD and LLD wise however there were few disagreements on few cases . Which I think became the case for rejection.

Round3: DSA
Was given a implementation heavy problem and the interviewer mentioned that they wanted to see more of my coding style. Question was to filter hotels based on available dates from list of hotels and display prices.The catch was that only those hotels will be eligible who have continuous availability for mentioned check in and check out dates . However had to make the whole data first and then logic to calculate prices. Initially I proposed a complex solution but as I was coding the data I improvised and gave a fairly easy solution. Discussed time complexity and what can be done to improve that . Couldn't go to extension version of the question as time was up .

Didn't recieve any rejection mail or feedback. Followed up with HR and was conveyed a reject.

Edit: Recieved feedback that I had a Hire and hire in design and hm round but a no hire in dsa because although i was able to improvise my typing was slow and I was discussing too much. Lol . I thought that we should convey our thoughts clearly in interviews but I think interviewer wanted me to just do a gpt and silently code the solution!

Happy coding!

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