Expedia SDE-2 Seattle — 4 virtual onsite (design + coding); reject
Hi all,
I cleared all rounds and gave all 4 virtual onsite rounds very well. Even then they rejected which came as a surprise because 3/4 of them said my code was right and they appreciated that the interviews went well. 1 System Design + 3 LC rounds went well but still no offer. I'm so confused and they denied feedback too.
System Design - Asked about past work-ex and basic questions about API & a hotel booking system to design a specific data populating part.
Leetcode round 1 - ThreeSum problem. ( I coded entire problem correctly in java). They were happy with the optimized code and explained different approaches too.
Leetcode round 2 - To sort an array and find some absolute value. Interviewer gave the hint and I almost solved it. Ran out of time but he was impressed with entire code and just a small change would've cleared all testcases. Explained other approaches along with the complexities.
Leetcode round 3 - Solved the inorderSuccessor problem in java in 2 different approaches. She was impressed and said I did very well.
2 days later I got a mail today saying the they didn't go forward with my interviews. It's because either they found lots of better candidates or I needed to perform better.
The loop · 4 rounds
API + hotel booking system, design a data-populating part
3Sum in Java, optimized
Sort an array and find an absolute value
Inorder Successor in BST, two approaches