I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Sep 2014
Interview
First interview took 15 minutes on the phone. Questions - why do you want to work for booking.com, are you willing to move to amsterdam. The interviewer asked questions about all the things which I wrote in the cover letter.
The second one was technical on titanpad and took 30 minutes.
One task : Write an algorithm for finding if a word is partial anagram of another word:For example :
booking <- bing true
What is the complexity of the written algoritm.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Feb 2015
Interview
Never had such before. Instead of just giving a task (as an exam) and wait you cracking it they told about a problem and we were working on it together.
The whole process included:
-coding task on time online.
-mobile short talk to HR
-online technical interview with 2 team leads
-onsite interview. 5 hours, 3 rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The chess game and algorithm for a horse getting shortest path to move from one point to another.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Jan 2015
Interview
After I applied this position, got an Email and need to finish online code test on HackerRank. The test contains 6 coding tests with 3 difficult, 2 medium and 1 easy problem( Just choose the one you can complete in 1 hour) . Then I got call from HR and confirmed the time of technical review.
Then, the technical phone review with two developer. The question is there is an endless stream, you can get characters from this stream one by one. How to identify a word from this stream? How to handle the case if the first character of this word appeared several times in this word? For example, grep "interview" from "intervinterview". How to find thousands of word from this string?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Dec 2014
Interview
* Recruitment Interview with the Recruiter : This was general round over telephone, recruiter asked me some general questions about my total experience, why do I want to leave my current company and why do I want to join booking.com
* Technical phone interview with 2 members from the IT Department : In this round first I got a test fr 1 hour and that test was prepared by Hackerrank.com, after that I got a call and phone interview starts, during phone interview they again gave me a problem to write algorithm for it and asked complexity of it.
* Face to face interview at office, in my case Amsterdam
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If there is a small hotel in part of Amsterdam why should we add them?
Software Developer – (Willing to Learn Perl) applicants have rated the interview process at Booking.com with 2.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Developer – (Willing to Learn Perl) roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 7 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Booking.com overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Booking.com as a Software Developer – (Willing to Learn Perl) according to 7 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 54%
Skills test: 31%
Group panel interview: 15%
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