Expedia SDE-3 Gurugram — 2 coding rounds + design; reject

GurugramFeb 20240by Anonymous

YOE: 7 years
Position: SDE3 at Expedia Group
Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Date: February 1st week 2024

Round-1 (Video Call)
Problem solving, 3 questions: Array Sorting, Operations in array, String Subsequence. Solved all except the 3rd (after hints).

Round-2 (Video Call)
Coding, 2 questions: max length subarray of 1s (binary array, flip at most B zeros), shipments logic (least ship capacity to ship packages within B days).

Round-3 (Video Call)
System design: design a Food Delivery App System. Discussed use cases, Functional Requirements, NFRs, which database per service.

Round-4 (HM Round)
Focused on current role/responsibilities and challenges:

Current Project Architecture, your contribution and role
how to resolve conflict with other teams when designing an API contract
how to make sure your APIs are idempotent (Handle Duplicate requests)
example of automating manual work
example of tech excellence / process change
example of debugging the most difficult prod issue and its impact
greatest tech work you are proud of
features you love about Java; what is a reentrant lock?

The loop · 4 rounds

Technical Interview 1

Array sorting, operations in array, string subsequence

Technical Interview 2

Max length subarray of 1s (flip B zeros), capacity to ship packages within B days

Design Round

Design Food Delivery App (FR, NFR, DB per service)

Hiring Manager Round

Behavioral + Java deep dive (idempotent APIs, reentrant lock)

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