Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. El proceso duró 4 semanas. Acudí a una entrevista en Booking.com en feb 2014
Entrevista
Overall process was interesting. What I liked about this process is that they have different approach than other big companies:
- they ask you to prepare a presentation on some of your past technical challenges
- you may directly talk with CIO directly
I had following questions on phone screening:
- tell the usage of map and grep in Perl
- code function that merges two lists, but removing duplicate ones
- write simple crawler without specifics(just some dfs)
Also, I had onsite interviews with the following questions:
- write code for finding shortest path on the chessboard
- write code for composing cloud of tags from the text. Discussing alternative approaches and scalability issues.
- write code for determining crawler bots by analizing web server logs.
- explain some perl code
Of course they asked to evaluate runtime complexity of the written code.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. 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.
Envié una solicitud electrónica. 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