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Your Guide to Preparing for your Final Stage Mobile 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 better 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

01

Traveler First

We put the Traveler First in every action and decision.

02

Think Big

We Think Big by being ambitious, seeing opportunities others don’t, and quickly taking bold bets that create long-term value. 

03

Operate with Excellence

We Operate with Excellence by being tenacious and driving improvements day after day.

04

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.

05

Succeed Together

We Succeed Together through collaboration and candor — challenging directly, debating hard, disagreeing when necessary, then committing fully to deliver as one team.

Mobile Engineering at Expedia Group

By joining a Mobile Engineering role at Expedia Group, you’ll collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to build seamless, intuitive experiences that help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. Focusing on either Android or iOS, you’ll help define and deliver high-quality features while building performant, maintainable apps. You’ll also bring an ownership mindset and succeed together with your team through thoughtful, end-to-end solutions that strengthen how we operate and deliver for travelers.

Curious to know what the journey is like in a Mobile Engineering role? Check out the Life at EG blog here!

The interview process

As you begin your interview journey, bring your whole self. We want to understand what motivates you, learn about your skills and experience, and help you get to know Expedia Group, our culture, and what the role requires so you can decide whether this is the right fit for you.

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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  1. What Interviewers Look For

    Our interviewers are looking to understand how you think, what motivates you, and how your experience aligns with the skills and competencies needed for the role. They’ll also be evaluating how clearly you communicate, how you approach problem-solving, and how effectively you collaborate with others. If a question is unclear, feel free to ask for clarification or have it repeated.

    During the interview, you should expect to talk through your thought process out loud. Be prepared to share examples of projects you’ve worked on, the solutions you contributed to, and the impact of your work. As you answer, focus not only on getting to the right outcome, but also on showing how you evaluate problems, make decisions, and work with others along the way.

    Interview Topic: Problem Solving, Algorithms, and Data Structures
    This interview will assess your problem-solving approach and ability to identify optimal solutions, while testing your coding skills, decision-making, and understanding of data structure concepts. You may also be asked questions related to the EG behaviors: Traveler First, Think Big, and Succeed Together. During this interview, you can expect to talk through your thought process out loud. We encourage you to not only focus on finding the correct answer but to also demonstrate your problem-solving approach and how you collaborate within a team.

    Interview Topics: Mobile Competencies
    This interview will focus on your experience with mobile development concepts across Android and iOS, including how you approach building, debugging, and improving mobile applications. We also encourage you to review core mobile engineering fundamentals, such as platform-specific considerations, application architecture, and best practices relevant to creating reliable, user-friendly mobile experiences. You may also be asked questions related to the EG behaviors: Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together.

  2. Be Yourself + Do Your Research

    Be yourself. We want to meet the real you. Our interviewers are excited to get to know you and want you to succeed. This is also your opportunity to decide whether Expedia Group is a place where you can see yourself growing your career. As you prepare, be sure to take time to understand the role, what’s expected, Expedia Group, and the travel industry.

  3. Virtual Tips

    Practice leads into confidence. Use what you’ve learned about the role to prepare for common questions, especially those tied to the key skills and responsibilities in the job description. Practice saying your answers out loud and get comfortable explaining how your experience connects to our values. It’s a strong way to show preparation and genuine interest in the opportunity.

    On the day of the interview, keep these in mind: join the interview five minutes early, choose a quiet space, and test your connection in advance. Please keep your camera on during the interview to help build connection and show that you’re engaged in the conversation.

    We also value the authenticity and originality of responses during the interview process, so we ask that you do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to answer questions. Genuine, personal insights are important for a meaningful evaluation.

    If selected to interview, you may request a disability accommodation, and use of certain tools may be considered.

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.

  1. Situation

    What was happening? Set the scene by explaining the context, who was involved, and why the situation mattered.

  2. Task

    What were you responsible for? Share the goal, challenge, or expectation you needed to address.

  3. Action

    What did you do? Walk through the steps you took, why you chose that approach, and the specific role you played.

  4. 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.