I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jul 2017
Interview
Recruiter found me on stackoverflow, where I have a complete "developer history", and based on my experience recommended me to apply to a certain position. After an email exchange they sent me the hackerrank challenge.
After I passed the challenge, I had phone call with the recruiter about my experience.
Few hours later I received an email from no-reply account telling me that I was not a good fit.
If my experience didn't fit the position why did they asked me to apply(!?).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
There is a good clue about the hackerrank questions already posted.
1. Initial HR telephonic round related with current work, family status, moving out to a different country.
2. Telephonic interview with screen share.
The browser based tool used to share the screen stopped working couple of times due to too many simultaneous users.
Interview questions:
a. Basic questions about web/INTERNET/HTTP
b. Specify T-SQL schema for a movie review site
c. Basic T-SQL queries to get ranking/rating for specific movies based on genre
I guess the interveiwer expectation was to move towards NoSQL store with varied meta-data associated with Movie-content
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A classic old question about describing what happens when user enters a url in browser.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Booking.com in Apr 2017
Interview
i was contacted by an hr representative and we agreed on a phone call where i was asked about my experience, some projects i worked on and my contributions to them and after that interview was complete given a test on hackerrank. i completed 3 out of 4 questions however they said my score was not enough to continue the process
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
sort the hitels based on user review.
u r given a line with words and u have to sort each hotel based on the occurence of the words