I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Ámsterdam) in Jun 2022
Interview
The interview experience is good in general. And the challenge is fairly easiser. But I had the worst experience in system design interview.
For one thing I really did not understand a interviewer's questions with his poor English. The other is that, they would interrupt you at each step of your thinking process. Though they interupt you is to tell you your design wouldn't work without telling you where heads to, I never had a chance to explain my design.
My advice is that in this step, you should take it as a chance to see if you can work along with future co-workers, as they hired a lot expats(no offense) working here with different communication and culture backgrounds.
- Online test: Hackerrank
- TA call: passed the OT HR would schdule call
- Coding challenge: leetcode like question with two interviewers on Hackerrank
- System design: two interviewers on Hackerrank
- Culture fit: failed SD did not make it
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Hackerrank OT is a Java project that can be edited local.
- TA call is questions usual questions like why would choose this corp and what is your tech stack etc.
- Coding interview is leetcode like question.
- System design part is a to design a scalable system for internal usage.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Ámsterdam) in Apr 2022
Interview
Smooth and challenging. I had 4 steps during my interview process:
1. Test
2. HR call
3. Tech call
4. Fit interview
It took around 2 months in my case.
Firstly was given a coding challenge given through hacker rank. The technical review was okay, a 75 minute timer, so it was not overly time consuming. Overall, the interview was fine, nothing too frustrating or annoying to deal with.