I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Booking.com in May 2017
Interview
It was medium level coding online interview.
Could not clear the system troubleshoot question but was able to solve algorithm based questions.
Algorithm based questions were quite easy and I solved quickly but others I didn't know anything about those.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
1) There is a mysterious process running on the server, which is generating a secret message.
Can you spot the message ?
A developer claims that his script is not being able to connect to auth web server in (one weblink) , but it works on a different server.
You need to find out what could be happening and fix that
We just got informed that web server has been hacked !!
The index page is showing a "pwned" message that we should revert
Our monitoring checks report the message "Failed connect to localhost:80, Connection refused"
But we have backup server of index file at path "some path" that you should restore to server's DocumentRoot file.
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam)
Interview
This was the first interview. In general it was a relaxed conversation with in depth moments. The main goals was to share information about the applicant, the company and see if there is a possible match. I like the academic nuance but the feedback is taking too long and is not clearly communicated.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the complexity of the pseudocode the that I am going to post in the chatbox?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Dec 2023
Interview
- Recruiter’s Call: Motivation, recent experiences. etc.
- Live Coding (1 Hour): Code on Hackerrank. No need to run and test the code.
- System Design and monitoring (75 minutes)
- Cultural Fit (1 Hour): This round was super weird.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Live Coding: Easy problem related to recursion. Calculate time and space complexity.
- System Design: Design a part of Booking’s internal system.
- Cultural Fit: I had a bad experience in this round. One of the interviewers often frowned and was very dismissive. Asked odd questions:
- What is the size of your company
- How many people work in your company
- Explain to me the hierarchy of the company
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Dec 2023
Interview
It took 2-3 weeks between the initial call and the live-coding interview.
On the Live Coding, there were 2 engineers on the call. They were nice and appreciated my effort, even if the solution was no the best one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You're given an array of city pairs and a start city. You need to find a valid itinerary:
cities = [
['Milan', 'Mexico'],
['Mexico', 'Dubai'],
['Berlin', 'Milan'],
['Barcelona', 'Berlin'],
]
Having the start: "Barcelona"
Here it would be: [ Barcelona, Berlin, Milan, Mexico, Dubai ]