El proceso duró 5 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com (Roma)
Entrevista
The process interview consists of different steps.
At first you have 2 remote calls: 1 non-technical and 1 technical.
- You have to explain why you think you can be a good fit for the position and discuss about your experiences as SRE
- You will be asked to resolve two classical algorithm and data structure problems (examples from leetcode - medium level)
If you ace them you will be invited on site to run the last interviews: 2 technical e 1 behavioral.
- Algorithm and data structure problem like the previous one
- System Design interview and Linux troubleshooting questions
- Booking.com awereness and behavioral questions
Prepare yourself a lot on algorithms and data structures. The behavioral questions are important as the technical ones (do not underestimate them)
Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com (Ámsterdam)
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
What is the complexity of the pseudocode the that I am going to post in the chatbox?
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com en dic 2023
Entrevista
- 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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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
Envié una solicitud electrónica. El proceso duró 3 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com (Ámsterdam) en dic 2023
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 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 ]