Expedia Group interview questions

Was rushed to do the phone interview within 24 hours, this was completed and then heard nothing back. I am over 35 and a bit overweight maybe this is why I never heard back, but with 10 plus years in the industry this should have been a slam dunk based on the qualifications of the position. Total waste of time as they are wanting fresh out of university students who they can train on the industry not someone who has been on the other side of the industry based on the profile of their staff.

Expedia came to Campus back in November and I had missed them completely. While they were here they hired 2 friends of mine for the summer and I was worried I missed the boat. I applied online to Bellevue and Chicago in November and they sent me back two rejections both before even doing rounds of interviews. I applied again anyways to Bellevue and even though that was my third time applying online, this time they sent me back a hacker rank coding challenge. They were 2 simple coding challenges that both used specific data structures (Queue, Stack, and unordered set). I got 19/20 of the test cases passed. Later that day I got an email for a behavioral interview, I just had to talk about myself and things I liked from school and past coding experiences. After that I had another email for a live interview over a skype like platform. During my live interview I was asked to do a BFS, I struggled a lot but I kept talking through it and with the help of my interviewer managed to complete it, then they had me adjust the code to do a similar operation and I really couldn't do it but I kept talking through it with my interviewer and he walked me through it and I coded it as we talked. 2 Weeks later I got my offer of hire! MAIN THING IS COMMUNICATION. These companies want people who can communicate and who understand that only 11% of companies believe students learn enough in school to be a software engineer. If you're a student please for the love of everything beautiful, do personal projects every day and build full scale stuff. None of this "I dont have time stuff." I have 18 credits this semester, 20 hour work weeks, I am president of a school club, and I still find 2 hours every other day for personal coding. If you are too busy you just don't want to be successful bad enough.