I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com in July 2021
Interview
I applied for Booking.com from the careers website. Shortly (within a day or two) I got an invite for the hackerrank test. The hacker rank test was a simple spring boot question. I usually don't say this, but I'm 100% sure I solved all the questions asked in the test but still the result was negative. I don't even know where did I go wrong. I emailed them asking the feedback on where I went wrong but got no reply.
The interview stages are:
Step 0: Hacker rank test
Step 1: An Online Coding Challenge
Step 2: A Recruiter Phone Interview
Step 3: A Technical Phone Interview
Step 4: Virtual Business Interviews
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
90 mins. A spring boot hackerrank question. As soon as you log into the hackerrank test. You will get a GitHub URL. You can copy the URL and clone the repository in your local. You have to work on your local machine and keep pushing your commits to the repository.
All the necessary POJOs, service implementation, and databases are in place
I was asked to implement the following questions:
1. Implement a GET /hotel/{id} to retrieve a hotel by Id
2. Implement a DELETE /hotel/{id} to delete a hotel by Id. (It should not be actually deleted from the system but should be marked as 'deleted')
3. Search all the hotels closest to the city center. /search/{cityId}. The city object has latitude and longitude and the hotel object also has latitude and longitude. The distance between two can be calculated using the haversine formula, (The question says we can use the internet to calculate the haversine formula)
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Feb 2026
Interview
Consists of an initial logic programming test for gatekeeping followed by actual platform/techstack specific tests and technical questions. If you get through the initial test you get informed every step of the way whether you pass or not. The assignments are not terribly complicated but you will need to be prepared for the technical back and forth.
I applied online. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Hyderābād) in Apr 2022
Interview
The interview process was very smooth and well paced. The interaction with the recruiters, interviewers was very friendly, organic. They were very cooperative and helpful throughout the interview process. slot booking method was very good and they would also provide right resources to go through to prepare.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interview was mostly about leaning about your thinking and approach towards a problem. How do you come up about handling a problem related to scale, are you able to modularize your components.
There were 3 rounds :
1) Round one was simple Java based question, not much about algorithms, data structures. It was more about coming up with right states as Enums, designing right processing flow, handling edge cases.
2) This was system design round about developing some component which may be used in booking.com. It was more about handling large scales, retries, failures, external system integration etc.
3) Third round was cultural fit round to evaluate how you handle pressure, failure, team etc.
The interview process was very smooth and productive. I was so relaxed during the whole process because the interviewers were so friendly. The interviewers were so precise but at the same time, they were always ready to help.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
It consists of an online coding session then a system design question and at the end some behavioral and business questions.