Expedia·Product Manager·Hiring Manager Screen
- How many hotel rooms are there in New York City?
“Market sizing.”
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Most of these Expedia write-ups come from Software Engineers (22), then Machine Learning Engineers (5) and Data Scientists (4). The most reported rounds are the technical phone screen (16), the system design round (7), the behavioral / leadership round (4) and the hiring manager screen (3).
36 interview notes · updated Jul 2026
“Market sizing.”
“I started writing a brute-force combination generator before I even clocked the 0-8 range thing.”
“Having the framework handed to you sounds like a relief until you realize the tokenizer is actually the part that needs to work correctly for everything downstream.”
“I knew the pattern conceptually but fumbled the loop logic on the first pass.”
“This one made me pause longer than I expected.”
“I went with the prefix count plus hashmap approach, tracking how many times each odd-number count had appeared and checking the difference.”
“I started with the API layer and worked outward, which in retrospect was fine but I spent too long on the happy path.”
“Pretty mechanical once you see the pattern.”
“Classic house robber problem.”
“The problem sounds straightforward until you actually try to code it.”