Expedia SDE-1 Gurugram (web scraping) — OA, PS, Selenium design; reject
Role - Web scraping engineer
Location - Gurugram
Experience - 2 years 8 months
Round 0 - Online Assessment
Round 1 - Problem Solving
Project discussion and follow up questions
Find the maximum productivity of a workshop using the given labour force. The fee and productivity of each labour is given. Also, the total budget of labour force is specified. The code had to be optimized using binary search.
Verdict - Positive
Round 2 - Design Round
Design a web scraper using selenium automation to compare the sites of Expedia and Booking. The code should also print data, search results and images and compare them side by side.
I could only write the Python code to implement the functionalities asked in the question. But I couldn't complete the entire code as I had no idea of selenium.
Verdict: Negative
Round 3 - Hiring Manager Round
Project discussion and follow up questions
Situation based questions
Cultural and Team fit questions
Verdict - Positive.
Overall - Rejected as the verdict was negative in the 2nd round.
The loop · 4 rounds
OA
Project discussion; maximize workshop productivity within budget, optimized with binary search
Design a Selenium-based web scraper comparing Expedia vs Booking (print/compare data, search results, images)
Project discussion, situational, culture/team fit