I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Bengaluru)
Interview
1. First round was a coding round with a third party where they had asked dynamic programming question. This wasn't an elimination round though.
2. Second round was a coding round where they had their own problem statement, it wasn't very difficult. I had to use java to code this.
3. Third round was a system design round where I had to design an internal system of booking. This system should be able to automatically capture money from the customer's card based on the configuration. Example 50% now and 50% before 2 days of booking date.
4. Last round was a cultural fit round, they just ask questions on your own experience in your previous companies, some behavioural questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. First round was a coding round with a third party where they had asked dynamic programming question. This wasn't an elimination round though.
2. Second round was a coding round where they had their own problem statement, it wasn't very difficult. I had to use java to code this.
3. Third round was a system design round where I had to design an internal system of booking. This system should be able to automatically capture money from the customer's card based on the configuration. Example 50% now and 50% before 2 days of booking date.
4. Last round was a cultural fit round, they just ask questions on your own experience in your previous companies, some behavioural questions.
30 mins interview with HR, then 1 hour technical interview leet code style (medium level) and then 1 hour system design interview. They did sent back a detailed feedback which is well appreciated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Find a path that goes through all the cities given list of flights between cities (DFS style)
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Interview
Worst Recruiter Experience Ever
This is a very long and bad story about recruiter experience with Booking.com
One of the recruiter from Booking.com contacted with me at September 23 via Linked'in about Software Engineering roles and after that we contunie on email and we scheduled meeting at a time, I have to reschedule it for later because of my urgent issue. We decided for later.
We scheduled second meeting after one month later on zoom but he didn't show up and didn't inform me before neither after meeting. And I send an email for it but he didn't reply me too.
Until this point it was enough bad but there is more than these.
After months later middle of December he sent me an email that just mentioned new vacancies at Booking.com and I reply him and asked the reason not showing up at first meeting and he didn't give any reply to this email.
Contunie,
Later, one of the an other recruiter from Booking.com, sent me the email about new opportunities and very enthusiastic long explanation about company culture,
I didn't reply that day and next day he sent me other email that ask what I think about it and then I reply him I would like to meet for short talk for the opportunities and I sent my available times and (guess whatttttt :D ) he didn't reply me toooo :D.
Contunieeeee
The first recruiter sent me new message for vacancies a few days ago without any explanation.
I am very curios how this company still exist :D
These are the worst worst experiences ever that I have with recruiters.