Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). O processo levou 4 semanas. Fui entrevistado pela Booking.com (Amsterdã) em set. de 2015
Entrevista
I applied through a Booking.com recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam (Netherlands)) in September 2015. Had around 6-7 rounds of interview of tech + HR + cultural fit assessment.
Overall work place and interviewers seems to be pretty good. Interviews were well balanced.
Perguntas de entrevista [4]
Pergunta 1
1. Started with a HackerRank - session 5 questions - 90 mins, not very hard After that 6 rounds of interview:
2. HR round - to understand interest level, work experience and knowledge about Booking.com
3. Technical round - pair programming on a shared code-collaborator environment, 2 programming questions (basic array and hash questions)
Invited to Amsterdam - for face to face interview
4. HR round - for answering any questions, salary discussions etc.
5. Technical round - design graphite from scratch, evolved designed system to handle scaling scenarios
6. Technical round - 2 problems - a. retweet twitter tweets if newer one is an anagram of older one, b. 20 boxes - 500 GB log files on each - no processing box on server file, aggregate data on one box and parse for phone numbers - bookings. Efficiently.
7. Technical and Culture fit round: Discussed various scenarios encountered during work and how will be your behavior on them
8. HR round - offer ! - Offer very low pay, considering high cost of living NL - Amsterdam declined the offer
Candidatei-me por meio de uma agência de recrutamento. Fui entrevistado pela Booking.com (Amsterdã) em jun. de 2026
Entrevista
Two stages:
- Technical: consisted of two parts. The first one was a hands-on coding exercise where I had to solve a problem, and the second one was focused on system design.
- Culture fit
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
They asked about idempotency, retry mechanisms, inter-process communication, observability, reliability, and scalability.
Candidatei-me por meio de recrutador(a). Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Booking.com.
Entrevista
I recently interviewed with Booking.com for a software engineer role. The process was well-organized and took about 3–4 weeks. It started with an online assessment on HackerRank with a couple of LeetCode medium problems. That was followed by a technical screen where I did live coding and discussed basic algorithms. The final round was a full day of back-to-back sessions: algorithmic coding, system design (something like designing a hotel availability checker), a behavioral round using STAR questions, and a chat with a manager about company values. The interviewers were professional and friendly, and the problems felt relevant to Booking's actual business. On the downside, some coding rounds felt repetitive, and I didn't get much feedback after being rejected. Overall, it was a fair but challenging process. My advice: practice medium-level array and hash map problems, review basic system design, and have solid STAR stories ready. I'd rate it 4 out of 5 stars and would recommend it to other engineers.
Perguntas de entrevista [1]
Pergunta 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.
Candidatei-me online. Fiz uma entrevista na empresa Booking.com (Amsterdã).
Entrevista
The whole process is composed of about 5 stages. Initial interview, then technical interview, followed by a “ownership” interview, then by a team-fit check interview. The initial interview is done by recruiters not based in the Netherlands (at least my experience) and felt as if the role had already been filled by the time I took it. Was answered with a “I’m doing good, hope you are doing good too. So this interview…” to “Hi, nice to meet you! How are you?”. It simply felt as if they didn’t want to be there and there was 0 engagement.