I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Tripadvisor
Interview
I went through one phone screening and was invited in to speak with the manager whose team I would be joining. There was first a half-an-hour of talking about my goals and seeing that I fit with the team's mission, then about 45 minutes of writing code to solve an array problem - mainly to make sure I knew to check for things that would raise exceptions - and pseudo-coding for a more involved brainteaser to test knowledge on time/space complexity.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a 2D array of ints, where '1's represent land and '0's represent water on a map, determine how many distinct islands it has (two horizontally or vertically neighboring cells belong to the same island).
I applied in-person. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Tripadvisor (Ottawa, ON) in Jan 2019
Interview
1 hour Skype interview with a supposed senior engineer of the company (They had a last minute change and I was interviewed by a younger engineer). The interview was 10-15 minutes of resume questions followed by 45 minutes of technical questions including a coding problem.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding Question: Write a function that checks if a binary tree is symmetrical. What is your functions time complexity?
The recruiter started nothing and asked me to do white board coding directly. The whole interview is not so friendly. When I was writing code, he just worked with his own laptop. I guess they didn't really want to hire someone.