I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Ámsterdam) in Nov 2019
Interview
Applied through hackerrank jobs. Recruiter reached out to me within 1 week and we had first 1 hour interview. After he setup phone interview with one the software engineers from booking
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Ámsterdam) in Nov 2019
Interview
First a couple of phone calls with maybe 30 min of duration, then a technical test with about 3 hours and then the interview. Fast interview with a panel of 3 members, it took 1h and half total.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Ámsterdam) in Oct 2019
Interview
There was first a phone technical interview with two medium questions. The first one was to find if two words can form another word from a dictionary and the second one to get a list of files from a file system hierarchy.
Afterwards I was invited to a onsite 3-round of interviews. The first one was coding a solution to the problem described below, the second a system design session to discuss the ways to create a Booking feature and the last one with a team leader about cultural fit.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Find the nearest hotels within a range [min, max] in a 2D grid, where the cells with the value 1 represent part of a road, a value bigger than 1 is the price of a room per night and an empty cell no road or hotel.