Online assessment with four questions on hackerrank. I was contacted by the HR and then followed online screening, where we were given assessment to finish in few days. The HR later emailed that the score was not enough to proceed to next rounds.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Jan 2025
Interview
Got approached by a recruiter for a SWE role. Whole process took around 1.5 months.
Three stages to the process:
1. Technical interview - standard leetcode style (heard back 1 day later saying I passed)
2. System design & Behavioural (two separate interviews conducted on same day)
Got the offer around 3 weeks after my sys design and behavioural saying I passed.
Didn't like how the system design was conducted - very rigid structure that made it unnecessarily hard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
medium difficulty leetcode, standard sys design and standard behavioural questions
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Booking.com in Feb 2025
Interview
First, there is a phone screen with HR, followed by a coding interview, system design, resume review and behavioral interview. I was treated rudely during the coding interview. They kept interrupting and questioning my implementation. At the beginning, I asked about boundary conditions as usual, and was impatiently answered: You can pretend that there is no such situation. After that, I was stopped before I even finished writing the code. They said that they understood my thinking and did not need me to write test cases and run them. At this time, there was still a lot of time, and they seemed to want to end the interview as soon as possible.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Medium-level questions in LeetCode usually have a statement about the business scenario, usually involve top k problems, double pointers, and dfs.