J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com (Amsterdam) en déc. 2016
Entretien
Applied by solving their problem set at hacker-rank online. Recruiter contacted me within one week. We scheduled a phone call. She missed the time, but it was not that much of pain as our conversation was interesting and I got the good amount of interesting information. Then we scheduled the interview with their "developers". Even after proposing me a list of possible time slots (I picked several) they scheduled this interview into a different time slot, okay. And this technical screen was one of the worst in my life. No introduction, they just pasted simple problem statement into the coding area, denied any discussion around the problem. I didn't have any feeling that they are interested in any kind of discussion, and that made this screening more meaningless as I've already solved much more interesting problems in their HR problem set. Okay. I finished first almost naive solution, then changed it to optimized, with few small bugs (that I discovered later in few minutes after the finish).
The interview was scheduled for 45 minutes, but after 25 minutes of the interview, one of the interviewers started "finishing" interview. Honestly, I agree that it's fine to stop interview earlier but, I don't believe that I was so terrible.
As a cherry on this "cake" is an answer that I received during the session for my questions to them, from the same interviewer that was on rush somewhere.
My question: "What do you do with 'bad' code? How are you improving the quality of your products?"
Answer: "We run bad code in production."
I know what "troll" means, but doing it on the interview with some person that's outside of your company?
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
We have two words. We need to determine if the second word contains a substring with an anagram of the first word.
ping & jingp -> yes
ping & ijngp -> no
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
J'ai postulé via une agence de recrutement. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com (Amsterdam) en juin 2026
Entretien
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
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
They asked about idempotency, retry mechanisms, inter-process communication, observability, reliability, and scalability.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.