I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jul 2017
Interview
My friend applied for me as a software developer.
I got 4 problems to solve in 75 min on hackerrank it was easy.
After that, the recruiter called me that I passed the first phase and asked me why I applied to booking and what I'm expecting and told me that there will be phone interview contain two problems and I will solve it in codepad the idea should be correct and will discuss about the complexity.
I passed this interview it was interesting the recruiter called me again and told me about the onsite interview. I get prepared for this step and study system design and solve problems, read in the data structure, She sent to me some useful links to look at.
I went to Amsterdam it was a great city to live in it.
The interview was 3 phases( algorithms and data structure, system design, culture fit)
The algorithm was an easy problem I found the optimal solution for it but will I'm talking they ask me some questions that I didn't know exactly the answer. The system design was good and it was my first time to know about system design. and I failed in the culture fit interview and that was a surprise for me.
But it was a great experience and I will apply again when it's available.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
return the longest sequence in array (a,a+1,a+2,...)
what is the best order for it
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com
Interview
I recently interviewed with Booking.com for a software engineer role. The process was well-organized and took about 3–4 weeks. It started with an online assessment on HackerRank with a couple of LeetCode medium problems. That was followed by a technical screen where I did live coding and discussed basic algorithms. The final round was a full day of back-to-back sessions: algorithmic coding, system design (something like designing a hotel availability checker), a behavioral round using STAR questions, and a chat with a manager about company values. The interviewers were professional and friendly, and the problems felt relevant to Booking's actual business. On the downside, some coding rounds felt repetitive, and I didn't get much feedback after being rejected. Overall, it was a fair but challenging process. My advice: practice medium-level array and hash map problems, review basic system design, and have solid STAR stories ready. I'd rate it 4 out of 5 stars and would recommend it to other engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.
Screener with a Director, coding round with TDD where you pair with an engineer and have an engineering manager present, behavioural with a senior engineering manager and an apprentice who was sitting it
Application
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Interview
The whole process is composed of about 5 stages. Initial interview, then technical interview, followed by a “ownership” interview, then by a team-fit check interview. The initial interview is done by recruiters not based in the Netherlands (at least my experience) and felt as if the role had already been filled by the time I took it. Was answered with a “I’m doing good, hope you are doing good too. So this interview…” to “Hi, nice to meet you! How are you?”. It simply felt as if they didn’t want to be there and there was 0 engagement.