Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com
Colloquio
I have applied for the software developer position on their jobs website. I received an email after more than a week. The interviewing process was described in that email.
1. Phone interview with the Recruiter
2. Technical phone interview with 2 members from the IT Department
3. In-person interview rounds at our Global headquarters in Amsterdam
The position was for Perl developer but they didn't require Perl experience.
I've passed first interview and I failed at the technical one. Since they have read my resume I expected questions that were in my field of knowledge.
Also I think that the description of requirements could be more clear.
Domande di colloquio [3]
Domanda 1
Given a text file containing the text for Hamlet (/usr/share/file.txt), return the top 5 most frequent words with count.
You have a long set of numbers. More than 400k. How would you search if a specific number is in set? They expect a better solution than looping the set until you find the number.
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.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Colloquio
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.
Screener with a Director, coding round with TDD where you pair with an engineer and have an engineering manager present, behavioural with a senior engineering manager and an apprentice who was sitting it