La procedura ha richiesto 5 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Roma)
Colloquio
The process interview consists of different steps.
At first you have 2 remote calls: 1 non-technical and 1 technical.
- You have to explain why you think you can be a good fit for the position and discuss about your experiences as SRE
- You will be asked to resolve two classical algorithm and data structure problems (examples from leetcode - medium level)
If you ace them you will be invited on site to run the last interviews: 2 technical e 1 behavioral.
- Algorithm and data structure problem like the previous one
- System Design interview and Linux troubleshooting questions
- Booking.com awereness and behavioral questions
Prepare yourself a lot on algorithms and data structures. The behavioral questions are important as the technical ones (do not underestimate them)
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Colloquio
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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 1
What is the complexity of the pseudocode the that I am going to post in the chatbox?
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 4 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com nel mese di dic 2023
Colloquio
- 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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 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
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 3 settimane. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam) nel mese di dic 2023
Colloquio
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.
Domande di colloquio [1]
Domanda 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 ]