I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) 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?
I applied online. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Booking.com in Jul 2016
Interview
I applied through HackerRank challenge. 4 questions, 75 minutes. Mostly, questions refer to Data Structures. Booking.com loves asking questions on HashTables.
They called me after 2 days. The first interview is: phone screen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
After greetings and introduction the questions were asked in the following order:
Q0: What do you know about Booking.com?
A0: Booking.com is one of the world's leading e-commerce companies, that helps to find accommodation.
Q1: Do you know the business model of Booking.com? How does Booking get their revenue?
A1: Commissions on bookings, etc..
Q2-10: You current work, responsibilities, experience in programming, experience in programming in Perl, have you developed projects from scratch?
Then she gave a brief information about company, technologies they use, the small agile teams, the whole working process.
Q11: What salary do you expect?
A11: Many interviewers advice not to tell the expected salary, but it depends on you.
Q12: Do you have any questions?
A12: ***