After applying, invited to a hackerrank coding interview, which consists of 4 questions and given time is 75 minutes.
3 out of 4 questions deserves time at least 40 minutes. How can these 4 coding problem has 75 minutes time limit! To judge a candidate you don't need these vast 4 questions. Max 2 questions can be solved within the time limit.
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Stressful 4 coding problems with a short time limit. I think that reflects their working environment. I think the problem choose just randomly select 4 questions without considering the complexity and needed time.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jun 2016
Interview
The interview process consisted in three steps.
The first was an online test in hackerrank.com. The test were four problems to solve in any language I like. I selected Scala. These excercises were not dificult but I lose lot of precious time dealing with the input-ouput because I rarelly use that in my routine work. I didn't finish all the excercises completelly because two of them didn't pass all the test cases.
The second was a call interview with two booking software developers using a web notepad in which they could see what I was writing. They proposed an excercise of grouping words from a list parameter with some additions. Nothing much complicated.
After that they asked me what happens if the parameter was an iterable instead of a list and I cannot convert it to a list in my code, and what was the impact in my solution.
Finally, passing the previous tests, I was invited to go to Amsterdam to a face to face interview. In Amsterdam I had three face to face interviews, two technical and one about talk from my job experience. The technical interviews were one about model designing and other about algorithms. The questions level was between moderate and hard for my point of view.
After that they told me that in two weeks would have an offer for me.
They didn't contact me from that. After one month I wrote to my recruiter but he didn't reply. I wrote again after two months but also without answer.
I don't know if I didn't pass the selection process and what was my failures because they never gave me the final answer.
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The most difficult answer was the design face to face interview.
The problem was be able to create policies about how to charge to the customer. For example charge the 10% 2 weeks before, then the next 40% one week before and so on.
In first it seems to be easy but while I was thinking in the situation they show me some complex scenarios.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Dec 2015
Interview
Applied online, solved HackerRank problems. Then had skype technical interview. And then I was invited to on-site final interview. In 2-3 days after I received an offer. Overall everything went very smooth with no major issues.
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Due to NDA I cannot share, but my best advice would be just to solve as much problems as possible.