Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 2 mesi. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com nel mese di giu 2017
Colloquio
1. Applied through their careers page, got a phone call explaining the process and logistics.
2. Online Coding Round
3. Telephonic paired coding
4. Onsite 3 rounds: Data Structure, Design Round & Cultural Fit Round
Feedback on the performance was provided.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
1. Given a string of characters, find the maximum substring with no repetitions.
2. Data Structure: Scrabble game
2. Design Round: Design a system to take logs (Json logs) from all systems: kind of engineering metrics.
3. Cultural Fit: questions around how to onboard a remote property etc.
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
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'agenzia di reclutamento personale. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam) nel mese di giu 2026
Colloquio
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
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
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
Colloquio
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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.