I applied online. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Booking.com in Sept 2014
Interview
I was interested in Booking.com because have relevant experience in development booking systems.
Got first interview with HR for just basic information.
After few weeks got another one with two team leads by skype and using Titanpad to share coding skills.
Regarding on a delay seems they are extremely busy.
They said that normally the interview should not take more than 45 mins.
After introducing each other they started to ask some tech questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I've expected to hear questions about data structures, algorithms, problem solving tasks, maybe tasks to fuckyourbrain, or another simple math problems etc.
They proposed me to code a function in pseudocode to get a short version of a description. But to keep whole words in a sentence and do not cut them.
After that they asked me questions about each line and proposed to improve my 2 lines of code to get it faster.
They tried to tip me using caching there.
Anyway looks like it was enough for them to understand something about me that caused to reject my application with general explanation that I do not have deep knowledge in area they needed.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Feb 2015
Interview
Never had such before. Instead of just giving a task (as an exam) and wait you cracking it they told about a problem and we were working on it together.
The whole process included:
-coding task on time online.
-mobile short talk to HR
-online technical interview with 2 team leads
-onsite interview. 5 hours, 3 rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The chess game and algorithm for a horse getting shortest path to move from one point to another.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Jan 2015
Interview
After I applied this position, got an Email and need to finish online code test on HackerRank. The test contains 6 coding tests with 3 difficult, 2 medium and 1 easy problem( Just choose the one you can complete in 1 hour) . Then I got call from HR and confirmed the time of technical review.
Then, the technical phone review with two developer. The question is there is an endless stream, you can get characters from this stream one by one. How to identify a word from this stream? How to handle the case if the first character of this word appeared several times in this word? For example, grep "interview" from "intervinterview". How to find thousands of word from this string?
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Dec 2014
Interview
* Recruitment Interview with the Recruiter : This was general round over telephone, recruiter asked me some general questions about my total experience, why do I want to leave my current company and why do I want to join booking.com
* Technical phone interview with 2 members from the IT Department : In this round first I got a test fr 1 hour and that test was prepared by Hackerrank.com, after that I got a call and phone interview starts, during phone interview they again gave me a problem to write algorithm for it and asked complexity of it.
* Face to face interview at office, in my case Amsterdam
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If there is a small hotel in part of Amsterdam why should we add them?