Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'altra fonte. La procedura ha richiesto 4 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam) nel mese di nov 2016
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I was approached through LinkedIn by one of their recruiters. I couple of emails was sent with some information regarding the company, job and relocation process/package.
A general phone interview followed. After that they asked me to complete technical assessment on HackerRank.
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One of the questions I could remember and completed successfully.
1. Identify whether there exists a pair of numbers in an array such that their sum is equal to N
- My take-away from all this is that HackerRank is a poor indicator of a developer's problem solving capabilities, and like so many of these things is only really good at assessing one thing, namely how good the candidate is at completing HackerRank tests.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'agenzia di reclutamento personale. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam) nel mese di giu 2026
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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
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They asked about idempotency, retry mechanisms, inter-process communication, observability, reliability, and scalability.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com
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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.
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Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam)
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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.