I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in May 2017
Interview
HR recruiter found me via LinkedIn and submitted me as a candidate, I passed the first coding exam at hackerrank and failed in phone call code interview. technical recruiter was a great person and the whole experience was good.
They didn't ask me to run the solution in code interview, the just wanted to see how do I think. I was previously scared because I already did some solutions in codepair and in the same link that they sent (which supposed to store the code), but they told me not to worry about that. after about 3 hints I think I was judged as a weak developer. I kept talking about what I am doing and they were satisfied about that and they considered that I have a good communications skills.
questions in the first code test was from easy-group in hackerrank but the questions weren't ready questions in the website, they were prepared by booking.com. the major problem in code test at hackerrank was the time, and you should be prepared well for getting the inputs and outputs (stout, stdin).
I checked the reviews here and I saw a majority of persons who passed the first code tests but then failed in on-site test in Amsterdam, so I wasn't so optimistic about going there, even if I've passed the phone call interview.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
1- (Coding test at hackerrank) Specify types of the polygons (square, rectangle, polygon). They didn't provide the number of lines, and negative numbers should be considered as polygons, and square shouldn't be considered as rectangle.
2- (Coding test at hackerrank) You have a list of words and a list of hotel reviews, try to sort the hotels based on the number of words from the first list that is exist in the each review. if an hotel has maximum number of 4 words then it should be the highest in the sorting..
3- (Coding test at hackerrank) You have time-stamps (mentioned as integers), which represents phone call begin and end to booking.com call center. find the number of overlaps in calls that suggests to add more call center agents.
- (Phone call coding interview). You have two lists, the first contain larger words, write a method that finds if the anagram from the second list's word in the first list's word.
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Apr 2017
Interview
- A test on Hackerrank
- A phone interview with HR
- A technical phone interview about algorithms.
- A onsite interview with 3 rounds: algorithms, system design and culture fit.
Interviewers are quite nice and supportive, they tell me if I go to wrong direction and whether I did well or not.
Company paid for the trip to Amsterdam in 4 days. It's a lovely city.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Algorithms questions mostly about string. Can be solved by using sliding window technique or tries.
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com in Mar 2017
Interview
on the first call they ask about my previous experiences and also to tell what you expect and share booking proccesses. The second call is a group call that you should develop some sharing you screen with the interviewer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
the code does not necessary need to compile but it must be in the right direction