Expedia Interview Questions

Aabid S. - "We had a huge launch on September 1st of this year where we completely redesigned our application from the grounds up and also migrated to a new platform (React.JS). This project took us 8 months and the launch was a huge deal for the team. Unfortunately the launch wasn't as smooth as we expected and despite doing multiple rounds of QA, some major issues cropped up in the core part of the app right after launch and our client was quite upset since it was disrupting their day-to-day workflow. "See full answer

Anjali V. - "I feel this is more about "Describe a time when I failed or struggled" rather than "Project Failure"."See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions What do we mean by bookings? Is it nights booked or transactions?: Nights booked Are there any constraints like platform or anything else while calculating the nights booked? : No If a user books a night but does not show up, do we still count him? : Yes If a user cancels before turning up, do we not count him? : Yes Expedia operates globally. Its major markets are Europe, USA, Asia, Africa etc. We will take the following high level approach **Total population →"See full answer

Jonah S. - "Imagine you're playing with a big box of colorful building blocks. You know how sometimes you want to build a tall tower, and other times you want to make a cool car or a cozy house? Well, a product manager is like the person who helps decide what kind of things we should build with those blocks. They talk to all your friends and ask, "Hey, what would be the most fun to make with these blocks?" Then they tell the builders what to do, like which blocks to use and how to put them together. And g"See full answer

Indranil G. - "It is NYC so mainly a business area. Also, there will be travelers to visit. Now we estimate that 5% of them are business travelers and 3 % of them are tourist So 8000000*5% = 400000 is Business And 7600000*3% = 228000 is tourist Now we also need to consider there are a family tourist who will use the same room that let us estimate 40% of the tourists are family means 40% * 7988000M = 91200 family and 1368000 is solo travelers 45600 are family room required considering there are 2 fa"See full answer

Janell O. - "One of the most basic measures of how well a PMO is functioning is the percentage of projects that are completed as a ratio of all the projects in a portfolio. More illustrative is how many of the projects are completed within the timeframes budgeted for the projects."See full answer

Adib M. - "Situation: This is an example from 2019 where I worked as a TPM in a leading company in the Tax, Accounting and Audit software biz in N. America. All our engineering teams had adopted agile ways of working and utilizing Scrum. Our teams had been at this for a while and were pretty good at planning and executing sprints. We would have quarterly releases to Production but we strived to have Production ready increments each Sprint. Since the software was in use for years , we would often get Pr"See full answer