I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Oct 2015
Interview
Interview contained 7 rounds:
- Hackerrank test. Contained 4 questions
- HR prescreening
- Online interview with shared notepad
- HR interview onsite, telling about company processes and culture.
- 2 rounds of onsite technical interviews. Usually they are three but the recruiter said there is no interviewer available so they will conduct the third round on skype.
- I waited for two weeks and then there was finally an online behavioural interview with a team lead.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Given a string of parentheses, check if the parentheses are balanced. Then the question was extended to all types of brackets.
Output the words found in a stream of characters.
- Input: Dictionary<string>, Stream
- Output: Dictionary containing words and their occurences.
- Complexity, best case, worst case
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Interview
The process consisted of 2 parts.
I submitted my CV at a Job Fair organized at the University, I was emailed the night to have an in person interview the day after, which lasted less than 1 hour (with 2 interviewers).
After that, they let me know in a couple of days that they would have liked to meet in person for the second part of the interview. In about a week we organized the trip to Amsterdam.
The second part consisted of 3 interviews plus some HR questions (like "why booking?").
The first one was a 1 hour technical interview pretty similar to the first one. The people did not put much pressure during my time solving the problems, but they did question my decisions and asked what other choices there would have been and why I didn't pick them.
The second one was again 1 hour interview, this time more focused on the design of components and the architecture choices to make. Both these interviews were with 2 interviewers, who were developers. They wanted me to extremely precise in the system I was describing ( I explained the same design in 3 different ways). I don't think I performed too well in this part.
The last one, 1 hour too, was about business understanding. This time it was 1 on 1 and the interviewer was the lead of team leads. It was a really relaxed and interesting interview, where he asked me if I knew the business model of Booking.com, what I would have changed in the site (asking to elaborate quite a bit on my replies), how I would decide if a feature under testing should be made permanent or not.
At the end of the interviews they showed me the building.
In a couple of days HR called me to tell me they liked me and she sent me an offer
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Call a function F in a loop. F returns a string of 140 chars. Write to the output 1 when F returns a string with the same letters (basically a permutation) of a string previously returned. (the question was not this well formed)
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Aug 2015
Interview
I applied online, then I received a call after one week to make a phone interview with a recruiter. It is about my experience and current employer. I received an invitation for online test which was 4 questions for 75 minutes. I had a technical interview with two persons and asked to solve two problems.