It consisted of first round of HR followed by technical round with live coding. I couldn’t go through the technical round further. HR was extremely cordial ans even in live coding riund, interviewwers were quite friendly
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
HR - experience on dealing with projects across teams
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in May 2024
Interview
Started in 3 months ago, then 3 rounds (recruiter, culture, coding) all positive feedback. But then the ghosting started for around 1.5 month. Did not expect anything anymore, and then they came back with excuses on vacations and a broken HR system. Then We did another technical interview after two weeks for which the feedback was again positive. And again two weeks nothing scheduled. Then I contacted them and was told they were "checking things internally". A week later they came back stating that the role was retracted due to budget cuts. Worsed interview experience to date.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you build us a recommender system for customers?
The first step was HR interview - role discussion, my background, salary expectations etc.
Second step is 2 algorithmic problems, live coding session
Third one is system design , then final conversation with HR