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Traveler First
We put the Traveler First in every action and decision.
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An Incredible Journey Begins Here
Your Guide to Preparing for your Final Stage Cloud Engineering Interviews
Congratulations – you’ve made it to the last step of the hiring process! We’re thrilled you’ve chosen to interview with Expedia Group. We have plenty of information we’d like to share with you to help with your interview preparation. On this page you will find out about life at Expedia Group and how you can prepare for your upcoming interview + top tips.
We hope that with our help you’ll get a great insight into what to expect, and have some fun along the way! You’ve got this!
Get to know Expedia Group
Helping travelers explore the world. One journey at a time.
We’re building a global travel technology platform and marketplace that helps millions of travelers discover, book, and experience travel around the world. Through our technology, brands, partnerships, and data, we power travel experiences across stays, flights, transportation, and activities.
Here, you’ll do impactful work that helps solve real traveler challenges at global scale — transforming technology, data, and ideas into products and experiences used by millions of people every day. You’ll work alongside passionate global teams in a collaborative and supportive environment where people can build meaningful connections. All while delivering on our Purpose: To help travelers explore the world. One journey at a time.
Living our Behaviors
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Think Big
We Think Big by being ambitious, seeing opportunities others don’t, and quickly taking bold bets that create long-term value.
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Operate with Excellence
We Operate with Excellence by being tenacious and driving improvements day after day.
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Ownership Mindset
We have an Ownership Mindset by looking at the business as if it’s our own and thinking beyond our role and our metrics.
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Succeed Together
We Succeed Together through collaboration and candor — challenging directly, debating hard, disagreeing when necessary, then committing fully to deliver as one team.
Cloud Engineering at Expedia Group
By joining Expedia Group in a Cloud Engineering role, you will collaborate with software engineers, platform teams, and security partners to build and evolve scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure that powers experiences across our global travel platform. You’ll help design and implement cloud-based solutions, improve system performance and resilience, and contribute to the development of efficient, maintainable, and forward-looking platforms.
Curious to know what the journey is like for various Engineering roles? Check out the Life at EG blog here!
The interview process
As you embark on this journey, we encourage you to bring your whole self to your interviews. We want to hear what motivates and drives you, as well as learn about your skills and prior experience. This is also an opportunity for you to get to know us, our culture and our requirements, so you’ll be better able to determine if Expedia Group is right for you, so you can make an informed decision.
Accommodations & adjustments
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions.
If you require an accommodation or adjustment for any part of the application or recruitment process, please let us know by completing our Accommodation Request Form.
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Skills and experience assessment
For certain roles, we’ll conduct a Skills Assessment and/or request a business case or work sample.
Mapping your skills and experience against the requirements of the role helps us understand:
- How well your experience would fit the role
- Whether you have the necessary skills to meet the job requirements
- How you’ve applied your skills in prior experiences
- This may include technical assessment, business case and/or a work sample
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Cultural assessment in relation to our Behaviors
Understanding your work style against our Expedia Group Behaviors helps us understand:
- Your compatibility and how you’d add to our culture
- Your approach to mitigating challenging situations
- Your potential success in the role and impact in the longer term
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Behavioral interview questions
Behavioral questions rooted in prior experiences are a great way for us to understand how you behave and think. Your interviews will include behavioral questions modeled on the below:
The Star Technique
The STAR technique is a simple way to structure your answers to behavioral interview questions. It helps you tell a clear, focused story by walking through the situation, the task, the action you took, and the result.
Situation
What was happening? Set the scene by explaining the context, who was involved, and why the situation mattered.
Task
What were you responsible for? Share the goal, challenge, or expectation you needed to address.
Action
What did you do? Walk through the steps you took, why you chose that approach, and the specific role you played.
Result
What happened in the end? Highlight the outcome, what you learned, and how the experience has shaped the way you work today.
Interview FAQs
Inclusion and belonging
We believe better travel experiences start with teams that bring different perspectives, experiences and ways of thinking. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where people feel valued, supported and able to contribute.
Our Behaviors help us work together with curiosity, candor, ownership and respect. When we make space for different perspectives, we make better decisions for travelers, partners, communities and one another.
Expedia Group is proudly an equal opportunity employer. All are welcome and everyone belongs.