Me postulé en línea. El proceso tomó 2 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com en oct 2015
Entrevista
1. Introductory round in which they told me about job for which I applied, salary that will be offered, living in Amsterdam, the culture inside the company. They asked me how much salary I am willing to take, my past experience, why do I want to apply, what technologies have I worked, if I know how booking.com earns its revenew etc.
2. Online test at hacker rank.
3. Tech Interview on Skype/Phone.
4. More Interviews (tech and others) in Amsterdam.
Preguntas de entrevista [2]
Pregunta 1
Just one question: shift an array to the right by n positions such that the right most indexes are become the first ones and the first ones move ahead.
like:
1 2 3 4 5 --> shift by 2 --> 4 5 1 2 3
Just one question: shift an array to the right by n positions such that the right most indexes are become the first ones and the first ones move ahead.
like:
1 2 3 4 5 --> shift by 2 --> 4 5 1 2 3
Me postulé a través de una agencia de empleos. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com (Ámsterdam) en jun 2026
Entrevista
Two stages:
- Technical: consisted of two parts. The first one was a hands-on coding exercise where I had to solve a problem, and the second one was focused on system design.
- Culture fit
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
They asked about idempotency, retry mechanisms, inter-process communication, observability, reliability, and scalability.
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.