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      Software Engineer Interview

      29 Dec 2016
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Amsterdam
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Dec 2016

      Interview

      Applied by solving their problem set at hacker-rank online. Recruiter contacted me within one week. We scheduled a phone call. She missed the time, but it was not that much of pain as our conversation was interesting and I got the good amount of interesting information. Then we scheduled the interview with their "developers". Even after proposing me a list of possible time slots (I picked several) they scheduled this interview into a different time slot, okay. And this technical screen was one of the worst in my life. No introduction, they just pasted simple problem statement into the coding area, denied any discussion around the problem. I didn't have any feeling that they are interested in any kind of discussion, and that made this screening more meaningless as I've already solved much more interesting problems in their HR problem set. Okay. I finished first almost naive solution, then changed it to optimized, with few small bugs (that I discovered later in few minutes after the finish). The interview was scheduled for 45 minutes, but after 25 minutes of the interview, one of the interviewers started "finishing" interview. Honestly, I agree that it's fine to stop interview earlier but, I don't believe that I was so terrible. As a cherry on this "cake" is an answer that I received during the session for my questions to them, from the same interviewer that was on rush somewhere. My question: "What do you do with 'bad' code? How are you improving the quality of your products?" Answer: "We run bad code in production." I know what "troll" means, but doing it on the interview with some person that's outside of your company?

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      We have two words. We need to determine if the second word contains a substring with an anagram of the first word. ping & jingp -> yes ping & ijngp -> no
      1 Answer
      3

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      23 May 2026
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      Application

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