J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com (Amsterdam) en juin 2022
Entretien
The interview experience is good in general. And the challenge is fairly easiser. But I had the worst experience in system design interview.
For one thing I really did not understand a interviewer's questions with his poor English. The other is that, they would interrupt you at each step of your thinking process. Though they interupt you is to tell you your design wouldn't work without telling you where heads to, I never had a chance to explain my design.
My advice is that in this step, you should take it as a chance to see if you can work along with future co-workers, as they hired a lot expats(no offense) working here with different communication and culture backgrounds.
- Online test: Hackerrank
- TA call: passed the OT HR would schdule call
- Coding challenge: leetcode like question with two interviewers on Hackerrank
- System design: two interviewers on Hackerrank
- Culture fit: failed SD did not make it
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
- Hackerrank OT is a Java project that can be edited local.
- TA call is questions usual questions like why would choose this corp and what is your tech stack etc.
- Coding interview is leetcode like question.
- System design part is a to design a scalable system for internal usage.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Entretien
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.
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