Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un selezionatore. La procedura ha richiesto 4 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam) nel mese di lug 2024
Colloquio
Fairly descent interview, Interviewers were nice and helpful and everything went almost well. I didn't get an offer but thats not the problem, I atleast expected a little context on why asides them moving to a better candidate, I followed up with recruiter and - you guest it - I remain ghosted.
Coding Round: Trip Itenerary problem. See LC reconstruct-itinerary
System Design Round: Design Credit Card Fraud Detection System
Culture Fit Round: Basically a Behavioural Round on experience working as an engineer
* How do you know your API is working?
* How do you learn? Also follow up converstation on being a T-shaped engineer.
* Why booking? When you helped another engineer succeed, how you give feedback, growth mindset, all that jazz.
* Your motivations?
Over 35 questions asked including follow ups during the culture fit round. Come prepared with all your stories on this round, my interviewer kept asking me for more stories for everything I say.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Singapore)
Colloquio
- Recruiter screening.
- HackerRank assignment. Some DSA questions and general knowledge for the position.
- Take-home assignment specific to the role.
- Pair-programming on the take-home assignment. Pair with 2 engineers, explaining the implementation, debugging, enhancing, refactoring, or adding more test cases.
- System design.
- Behavioral interview.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura online. La procedura ha richiesto 5 giorni. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam) nel mese di apr 2026
Colloquio
There are three rounds:
Pair programming, System Design and Culture Fit.
The recruiters try to send all information about the format of the different rounds.
Generally the process is quite fast, and they can even fit it all in a week's time.
Ho presentato la mia candidatura tramite un'altra fonte. Ho sostenuto un colloquio presso Booking.com (Amsterdam) nel mese di feb 2026
Colloquio
They contacted me via email. There was an HR call explaining the process, then another call to get me ready for the interview. One online coding round and one system design, followed by a hiring manager interview.
I did not like the process because of two reasons:
1. The HR calls I had were so unprofessional, I mean on a different level unprofessional. Didn't expect this from booking. The guy either woke up 5 minutes before the call or slept right after, don't know which, but used the excuse of bad internet connection for the voice and not turning on camera. Unpleasant discussions there.
2. Talking to the HR, I made sure PHP is in the list of the languages for the HackerRank problem I'm supposed to solve on the coding round. Also mentioned the fact that sometimes this is not the case, that's why I'm asking and wanna make sure about this, so that if it's not I can use my time to practice with a different language. They assured me that I can use PHP. Fast forward to the interview, boom, no PHP option. Lost my focus since most of the time I was trying to remember how to do something in Python. However they offered me to write pseudocode, still, I didn't feel fine and was surprised and lost myself there.