I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Ámsterdam) in Jul 2016
Interview
I applied from Canada as an overseas candidate.
After an online coding test and a technical interview with 2 engineers, I was invited to an on-site interview.
They covered the flights from-to Canada and accommodation in advance.
Before the on-site, I checked their stand and they said their impression was very positive.
On-site interview included 3 sessions, 1 hour each.
After the on-site, right in the interview room, the recruiter told me that she could not get feedback from just 1 interviewer, she already talked to the others, and they were trying to decide on the salary (she even told me what numbers they were trying to decide between).
3 days later, I got an email from her, saying they are not making the offer because my technical skills were not strong enough.
Knowing that my on-site was better than the initial 2 interview results, what I think happened is after initially telling me they cover relocation expenses such as flights, movement of stuff, initial accommodation for a few weeks, etc, they simply did not want to do it for someone coming from Canada.
Good process until the end, so bad impression...
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Ámsterdam) in Aug 2016
Interview
They give you a Hackerrank test (4 questions in 1 hour 15 minutes), then the HR calls you, and then there is the live coding, where 2 programmers watch you coding while on call. The code doesn't have to compile, they are only interested in the algorithm. I got an easy question, but as I haven't solved any problems of this type, I couldn't provide them the most optimal solution other than a brute force one. I think you either have luck, by knowing the problem type, or you learn a lot of algorithms, or you are a genius and come up with a solution in place. It's also hard to think in place, while you know that 2 others are on the line.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given the following list of objects {user, loginTime, logoutTime}. What is the maximum number of concurrent users logged in at the same time?
Input:
[
{user: A, login: 1, logout: 3},
{user: B, login: 3, logout: 4},
{user: C, login: 1, logout: 2},
{user: D, login: 123123123, logout: 987987987},
{user: E, login: 1, logout: 3}
]
Output:
3
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com
Interview
1. I applied through their career site, and got a hacker rank tests.
2 HR phone interview
3..I did not pass stage 2.
After hacker rank tests, I got an email for HR phone interview schedule.
I'd like to change my interview schedule but did not get a response email, so I had to get a phone call during driving.
Interview started from hacker rank tests results. I did not get a high score in the test, so she asked some technical concepts such as sorting algorithms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Why did you work for this company?
- Would you know how to work booking.com's business?