Tripadvisor General Intern Interview Questions
& Process

I got referred in by a current employee, and then a very nice person from HR reached out via email to set up a phone interview. We scheduled it for a week out. The interview itself was pretty straightforward and quick. The interviewer turned out to be the hiring manager. He was really friendly and easy to chat with. He mainly wanted to check if I could carry on a conversation and if I knew my way around Excel. Excel and Outlook were the main tools I used in my previous internship. At the end of the call, he asked about my laptop preference (Macbook, HP, Dell, etc.). A few days later, they called me back to offer me the internship at $15/hour, which I accepted.

I applied with my resume through an on-campus recruiter and then got an email for an interview. We did a quick email exchange to schedule, and the interview was about a week later. It was a 1:1 interview on campus where they asked me a couple of questions about binary search trees, like how to traverse them using breadth-first versus depth-first methods, and how to implement traversal without using recursion. The interviewer was really engaged, asked good questions, and was happy to answer my questions about the company and the job. Overall, it was a good experience.

I met the TripAdvisor team at the UIUC Engineering Employment Expo and signed up for a walk-in interview for the next day. I was called in and sat down with an interviewer. We started with some general questions about my interests and if I had any questions for the company. Then, the technical part began where we discussed Binary Search Trees, including their components. After that, I was asked to go to the whiteboard to complete a programming exercise where I had to create a function to sum all the elements in a binary tree. It was a good and not overly difficult interview.