I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Expedia Group in Sep 2014
Interview
This was literally the worst and most unprofessional interview experience I have ever had or heard of. The interviewer initially reached out to me via email and when I responded giving times that I was available to meet, he didn't respond until a week later.
It got worse. He didn't finish the initial interview within the time he had allotted, so he scheduled an interview for the following day. I have a job, so I had to find a space where I could take the phone call and take time off work for it. I waited for fifteen minutes and he never called, so I went back to work. He asked to re-schedule it for an hour later and I agreed. Then he never called. This happened FOUR TIMES before he eventually did call me at the time he said he would.
When it came to the time allotted for me to ask my questions, I asked about the job function and organizational structure. He did not have answers to any of my questions. He then scheduled a follow-up interview with a hiring manager.
The process to schedule a follow-up interview was similar to the initial scheduling process: so chaotic and unprofessional it made me doubt the legitimacy of Expedia as an organization and completely turned me off the company.
Finally, when I did meet with a hiring manager, she informed me that the job description and description given to me by the recruiter was completely misrepresented. I found the role on a website specific to communications and marketing jobs and was under the impression that it was a content management position, an impression that the recruiter confirmed in our interview. She informed me that it was completely operational, more of a data entry position. The interview was brief, less than 30 minutes and completely perfunctory. I doubt the interviewer was even paying attention.
Not only would I not want to work for Expedia after this interview, but I wouldn't even buy stock in the company as they clearly do not have a handle on the way their employer brand is managed and the way their operations are run.
WORST INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE EVER.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the three most important trends in the travel industry today?
I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Expedia Group (Bellevue, WA) in Jul 2014
Interview
One fairly quick phone screen with some basic area of knowledge questions.
A week after the phone screen commenced and in person interview for about 3 hours length. More in-depth technical questions from an SME including some what-if questions and one question which I told him he should be paying me for the answer because it was so real business case but I answered anyway. An architect also spend some time asking questions, mostly trying to gauge my enthusiasm for the task, I think. Met with the hiring manager who was mainly concerned with my personality to ensure that I would fit in on his team.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you dynamically automate builds for temporary in-flight developer source branches and include deploying successful builds and generating trace-able reports for all stages of such builds for as far as they got in the build/test/deploy process?
Got an email from HR, and the process (until the final round of interviews) took about 3 weeks. First interview is a screening call from HR, followed by a skype call by a manager, then a face to face interview with the hiring manager. Only during the last interview I was informed about requirements of the position that were not listed on the job description posted on Expedia Jobs website
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