I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Interview
HR was super friendly and helpful during the process.
Just, they told they would pay for the visa but they didn't.
In the algorithms&data structures interview, the guys were nice, friendly and helpful. Questions were not so hard and nice.
The system design interview was a nightmare. The interviewer was somehow in an insulting mode. He asked ridiculous questions like whether I ever used a website. He also seemed like he was in a hurry, he couldn't wait until I think of a solution and that stressed me out a lot.
It was a great experience except for this interviewer.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Manchester, Angleterre) in Mar 2017
Interview
First informal interview, then a technical test, a micro project in Java using Spring and creating a REST API, then a competency interview and finally the technical interview. Interviews were all via skype.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I did only the competence interview, about my past projects and current. They asked me a lot of informations about technologies used and so on. They said me that I couldn't proceed to the technical test because I answered to a question in a contradictory manner. I mean they ask me If I used automatic test environment I said No, specifing that in my last project, my application was under an aoutomatic test but configured by the test team, I received the feed back to fix bug or improve some parameters but I never used directly an automatic test environment. It is no a contraddiction in my opinion.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Mar 2017
Interview
A recruiter got in touch me from linkedin. After that a HR phone call. Then give me a tecnical assesment on hackerrank. It contains 4 four question and 75 minutes. The questions are easy by need time. I couldn't solve all of them. After a tecnical interview arranged with phone via hackerrank pair code platform.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
We have a log file, can grow pretty big.
Each line is a trace-log, and the first field is the RequestID.
We need to scan the file, and print all the logs for requests which resulted in error ..
001 <timestamp> BEGIN
001 <timestamp> fetched from db
001 <timestamp> some processing ..
002 <timestamp> BEGIN ..
002 <timestamp> fetched from db
001 <timestamp> returned success
003 <timestamp> BEGIN
001 <timestamp> END
003 <timestamp> some work
002 <timestamp> ERROR
003 <timestamp> some other work