Me postulé a través de un reclutador. El proceso tomó 4 días. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com (San Petersburgo, ) en ene 2014
Entrevista
It was a person to person informal video conversation through Skype. Part of the conversation performed in english to check language skills. There was neither hard technical questions nor programming tests. Maybe it would be a next part of the interview if the candidate met the appropriate requirements.
apply online and then got an interview opportunity with the hackerrank test, after thet an hr call and then two rounds of tech interviews, after that there is a beharviour interview
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.