Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó más de 2 meses. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com (Ámsterdam) en dic 2015
Entrevista
The whole interview process was great, I really enjoyed it.
At first, I received invitation for phone interview and assignment - 4 not difficult tasks for 1 hour. Next stage of interview process was a phone call from HR: he described details of nearest phone interview with IT specialists and other common things and answered all my questions, I told about my skills and experience. Next stage - remote interview with IT specialists. There was 2 not difficult tasks, interviewers watched for coding process live and I described my thoughts and ideas. Next stage was in Amsterdam, Booking.com arranged flights and accommodation. There was 2 rounds of technical questions and 1 business question. Tasks wasn't difficult again, but there was not only 1 solution, interviewers interested in my thoughts and the way I chosed for solution.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
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Me postulé a través de un reclutador. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.
Me postulé en línea. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com (Ámsterdam)
Entrevista
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