J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 5 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com en août 2023
Entretien
There were a total of 6 rounds, I got through to the 5th. 2 rounds were recruiter screening, followed by 1 technical coding round with a Leetcode Medium question described below, then 1 System Scalability (not design) question that was quite hard and specific to database scalability.
The interviewers did not seem like they wanted to be there. I always ask at the end of each interview "What is your favourite thing about working at Booking.com" and none of them could give me an answer. One of the interviewers even laughed as if I had made a joke, then paused and clearly realised he couldn't start bad mouthing the company to a potential employee and then effectively dodged the question.
I think its a pretty big red flag when none of the interviewers can tell you why they like working there, and try to dodge the question.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Cheapest Flights Sliding Door question from LeetCode. Scale a system and find the bottle necks in the current system design. There was a lot information given in the system scalability interview as its based on an existing system they give you as a POC that you must then make production ready.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What is the complexity of the pseudocode the that I am going to post in the chatbox?
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com en déc. 2023
Entretien
- 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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 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
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Booking.com (Amsterdam) en déc. 2023
Entretien
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.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 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 ]