Me postulé a través de una recomendación de un empleado. El proceso tomó 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com en dic 2015
Entrevista
I've sent my resume through a referrer. In a week or less, after my friend have submited my CV on their referral system, I received an email from an HR person from Booking. We scheduled a phone call. Also I received an email from Hackerrank to make an exam.
I made the exam before the scheduled HR call. The exercises were difficult. Be prepared before making them. Don't rush into the exam.
The HR call was nice, the interviewer talked very clear. Asked me about my work experience, and my objectives.
After that, I scheduled a technical interview with Booking. I got really nervous in this interview and got stuck at the first exercise. They were exercises about hashing, mapping, and managing large ammounts of data to query something. Be aware of the Big O notation.
They didn't offered me another interview after this one.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What's the time complexity of your solution? Can you make it linear?
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