1st Interview: Phone interview with the Recruiter: The recruiter is looking to know more about you; your work experience, why booking? why the position? As well as your experience with conversion funnels and how do you measure success. There is also time allotted at the end for any questions you have. If successful, you will be asked to proceed and schedule for the second interview. Coding Challenge: This is a timed challenge (30mins) which a link was emailed to me and had to be done before the 2nd interview. I had to replicate a country tile (with flag) from the home page of booking.com. They provided images. 2nd Interview: Technical phone interview with 2 members from IT team (UX designers) Part A) There was a very specific agenda of questions and it seemed that everything was time slotted. The interviewers first introduced themselves and then told me a bit about themselves and their roles at booking.com. I was asked about my work experience, design process and how I use UX in projects. They selected a website from my portfolio to discuss and asked questions. You will be asked to come prepared with changes to the site. 3 seemed more then enough. For each - outline WHAT you would change, WHY you would change it and HOW you would measure it (A/B test). These should be small changes that could be done right away. Part B) Next was the coding task: I was asked to create a grey box with a blue rectangle (middle top) inside and then 3 small blocks inside the grey box at the bottom (1 in each corner and then 1 in the middle). I was asked about the priority of inline, div and class. and also <span> and !important ** If you are a UX designer first and foremost you should really question the interviewers of what the role really entails - like... what is a day in the life of a UX designer at booking? I got the impression that it is front end Dev 1st and designer second. In fact I was told 50/50 by the recruiter and then 30 design/70 dev from the UX designers themselves. Booking is very data driven and love A/B testing so keep that in mind through the interview process. Overall I thought the interview was a good challenge. Good Luck!

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.