I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Mar 2019
Interview
1. Several messages via linkedin
2. Phone call
3. Remote pairing for coding
A lot of software engineers there are from Asia and I'm from Eastern Europe. For me hardest part was to understand what they said. My fault probably, need to improve language skills more.
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Interview
This was the first interview. In general it was a relaxed conversation with in depth moments. The main goals was to share information about the applicant, the company and see if there is a possible match. I like the academic nuance but the feedback is taking too long and is not clearly communicated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the complexity of the pseudocode the that I am going to post in the chatbox?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Dec 2023
Interview
- Recruiter’s Call: Motivation, recent experiences. etc.
- Live Coding (1 Hour): Code on Hackerrank. No need to run and test the code.
- System Design and monitoring (75 minutes)
- Cultural Fit (1 Hour): This round was super weird.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Live Coding: Easy problem related to recursion. Calculate time and space complexity.
- System Design: Design a part of Booking’s internal system.
- Cultural Fit: I had a bad experience in this round. One of the interviewers often frowned and was very dismissive. Asked odd questions:
- What is the size of your company
- How many people work in your company
- Explain to me the hierarchy of the company
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Dec 2023
Interview
It took 2-3 weeks between the initial call and the live-coding interview.
On the Live Coding, there were 2 engineers on the call. They were nice and appreciated my effort, even if the solution was no the best one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You're given an array of city pairs and a start city. You need to find a valid itinerary:
cities = [
['Milan', 'Mexico'],
['Mexico', 'Dubai'],
['Berlin', 'Milan'],
['Barcelona', 'Berlin'],
]
Having the start: "Barcelona"
Here it would be: [ Barcelona, Berlin, Milan, Mexico, Dubai ]