I got contacted by a recruiter who told about an offer in Booking that sounded quite interesting, specially for its relocation package. I accepted to have a Skype call with her, which was very pleasant. A week after I got an invitation for a second interview that was meant to go more in-depth on my experience and some live coding. That second interview was pleasant and not as difficult as I thought it would be. The live coding was pretty basic so if you had used HTML/CSS before it shouldn't be any problem. Basically they show you a <div> with some classes attached to it, as well as an id and some inline styles. In addition, there are some styles written on the other part and you need to deduce which style is the more relevant (the one class that has !important, the one on the ID, the one that's inline). For the second part of the live coding you need to code a simple form, and they ask you more stuff about how to position the elements. Then, they ask you to propose ideas for the website, which I did. Each proposal will be questioned heavily, specially regarding measurability (what metrics would you use, how to implement AB testing on it) of its eventual success. As far as I know, I did perfectly. I know my coding and the test was as basic as it could get, also my experience is good enough to bring up some good ideas, but still they thought I was not up to their standards on that regard. Still, I think Booking is a great company and they salaries and bonuses are quite generous. It's a shame I didn't get the job but I hope good skilled people can get it.

Applied through their website and was given a challenge to complete in 30 mins. I knew it would involve html and css skills but the challenge was ridiculous and irrelevant to UX design. Im glad I got to see what the job will invilve as it's not even what I would want to do everyday.