Expedia SSE Seattle — system design + HM + coding; offer

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I had a full loop interview with Expedia in June 2022. Each round was 45 minutes long with 15 minutes break in between.

Location: Seattle, WA

Round 1: System Design Round
Design a restaurant reservation system

Round 2: Hiring Manager Round

• Started with an introduction
• Asked about my projects
• Typical behavioral questions like - Tell me about a time when you had an innovative idea. How did you put across your thoughts when you disagreed with someone at work?
• Many other random technical behavioral questions like -
  • How would you performance test an API?
  • What is Distributed system vs Monolithic. He presented some scenarios and asked if it would be classified as distributed or monolithic.

Round 3: Technical Coding Round
Given an array, find minimum length of a subarray such that it has at least K distinct elements.

Each round started with an introduction for 5 minutes, 25 minutes to solve the problem, and then they also asked some situation-based technical behavioral questions. Saved last 5-10 minutes for me to ask any questions.

Interviewer got back the next day with the good news and to set up a team matching call with the hiring manager.