What Is the Expedia Interview Process Like? (Round by Round)

The Expedia engineering interview usually has four main stages over roughly three weeks to a month. It starts with a recruiter screen of 15 to 30 minutes. Many candidates then get a strengths assessment, an automated online test of 45 to 60 minutes about behavior and judgment. Next comes a HackerRank coding assessment of 60 to 90 minutes. A technical phone screen of about an hour follows. The final loop has three to four interviews of about 45 minutes each: coding, system design, and a behavioral or hiring manager conversation.

HackerRank is an online coding platform with automatic test grading. The strengths assessment is unusual among tech companies, so do not skip preparing for it.

Quick Overview

Recruiter Screen

A short call about your background and interest in the role. The recruiter also covers team, location, and salary expectations. No code is written here. Have a compact motivation answer ready. A full guide for it is in How to Answer: "Why Do You Want to Work at Expedia?". Ask the recruiter which rounds your loop will include, because the mix varies by team and level.

Strengths Assessment

An automated test presents work situations and asks how you would respond. It screens for traits the company names directly: curiosity, inclusion, and adaptability. There is no code here. Answer consistently and honestly, because contradictory answers score poorly. Many candidates fail this stage by rushing it. Take it in a quiet hour, read each scenario fully, and keep your answers aligned with how you actually work. There are no trick questions, only consistency checks.

Online Coding Assessment

Expect two coding problems at easy to medium difficulty, plus multiple-choice questions. The multiple-choice topics include object-oriented programming, databases, and operating systems. Practice arrays, strings, hash maps, and sliding window problems. A hash map is a structure for fast key-to-value lookup. Finish the easier problem completely before starting the harder one.

Technical Phone Screen

A live hour with an engineer. It usually combines a resume walk with one or two coding problems. Prepare a five-minute version of your best project: the problem, your role, and the measured result. Then expect standard coding at medium difficulty in a shared editor. Talk through your approach before typing, and test your code with one example at the end. Interviewers grade the reasoning as much as the final answer.

The Final Loop

Three to four back-to-back interviews of about 45 minutes. One or two cover coding. One covers system design, usually with a travel angle such as a booking or pricing service. A breakdown is in What to Expect in the Expedia System Design Interview. The behavioral round follows the STAR structure and the company's values. The question list is in Top Expedia Behavioral Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them). After the loop, interviewers compare notes and the recruiter returns with a decision, usually within one to two weeks.

How to Prepare

• Drill coding by pattern. Sliding window, two pointers, and prefix sums cover most reported problems. Grokking the Coding Interview teaches these patterns directly.
• Refresh computer science basics. The multiple-choice section rewards a quick review of object-oriented programming, SQL, and operating systems.
• Prepare system design with travel examples. Work through booking and pricing designs in Grokking the System Design Interview.
• Write your STAR stories early. Eight stories with numbers cover the behavioral round and the hiring manager conversation.