I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (London, England) in Aug 2022
Interview
1. HR introduction call : Basic info exchange about company/role <> Me
2. Competency interview: to check Leadership/organisation/Agile/Influence/teamwork skills
3. Tech Pairing: work on some user stories using a hackerrank challenge to check how you work in a real-time environment, the approach to tackle a statement, and how much time you spent
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You will download a legacy project and work on improvement/pending tasks, it's a mixture of java+kotlin language with lots of todos and you will be judged based on how many edge cases/error handling and improvements made in 60 mins with 10+ tasks usually only a few of them are possible to approach altho doing a live exercise it's not easy to cover every case with a perfectly working solution.
the essential points for booking are
TDD + refactoring + clarify requirements + scalability
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 months. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Feb 2023
Interview
- introductory call with a recruiter - take home assignment (provided backbone project, which you need to finish) - interview based on take home assignment - skills interview (system design, incident management) - culture fit interview
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- update solution of my THA according to changed requirements - overall approach towards Android app development - tools, libraries, arch design decisions