Expedia Group Network Engineer interview questions

Submitted a resume online. Got a response back from a recruiter a couple of weeks later. Scheduled a phone call - recruiter never called. Gave them another shot when the recruiter reached out to me almost 2 weeks after that - recruiter was more than 30 minutes late calling. If not for the fact the company was so short a commute, I would have ended it there. I probably should have. I come in for a face-to-face. I meet the manager, he seems OK. We have a good conversation. At this stage, I'm scheduled for lunch, which they said they would cater for me. I sit in that interview room for almost 40 minutes, no food. Someone comes in and asks me if I'm done eating, to which I mention I Haven't even seen a mint yet. They say they'll go look. I never see them again. I have a technical interview with one of the senior engineers. Well, sort of. It was more a game of stump the chump where he basically asked a bunch of theorycraft questions that one will never encounter in the real world and seemed to exist solely to help him validate his own skillset. I'm annoyed, but do a good job of masking it and power through it. My 3rd interviewer never even showed up. The 4th interviewer (a people manager of some sort who wasn't even with the networking group) and I had a good conversation, but I get the distinct impression that she was just randomly sent in to talk to me for an hour, because she had no real data on the job I was in there for. I leave and resolve to turn down any offer that comes in, if any. Radio silence. Then, 2 weeks later, I get this automated survey asking me how my interview process went (keep in mind I never received any sort of follow up one way or another). It was more than a little bit of a joke, this whole process. Talking with other network specialists in my area, the consensus seems to be that Expedia loves to interview people for roles they're never actually going to fill, roles they're going to move to another part of the country/world where the pay is cheaper, or roles that they are going to pull. They have no respect for a candidate's time, so you should not give them yours. As for me? I interviewed with 7 companies over 2 weeks, and received 5 offers. So pretty sure it wasn't me.

Possibly the worst show of recruiting I've ever seen. Process took just over a month, with 10+ day gaps between my emails and the recruiter's replies. Started off with a standard non-technical interview with HR, it went well. The woman was nice. I was then handed off to a recruiter in Bellevue. On a Friday, they asked for my availability for the following week, for a technical interview. I promptly replied with many available times. A full week later, I get a reply apologizing for the delay, asking for more available times. Then this series of events repeats itself. You get the picture. By the time it was all said and done, they had filled the position. What a joke, and a waste of my time. From the initial interview, it sounds like Expedia pays well and has a few nice perks. Otherwise, though, I have no idea how they expect to hire top talent when they treat their candidates this way.