I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in May 2015
Interview
First call with Recruiter who asked about my experience and motivation and then phone call with two data scientists. The interview was limited to 30 min with a business use case and how data science can be applied to the business case.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Business questions, how to apply data science for business problem such as signing in new hotels into their web site
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com
Interview
1) Short phone call with recruiter (asked for motivation to apply)
2) Phone interview with 2 business cases
3) On site visit with talk with recruiter (who asked me for salary indication). Then two 1h face to face interviews with 2 Data Scientists each. Each interview with 2 business cases.
4) Final interview with a Senior Data Scientist, one more business case.
5) Received an offer and negotiated salary over phone and e-mail.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you estimate the star-rating of a hotel that does not have an official star rating?
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com in Nov 2014
Interview
applied online and received an email from HR. The first interview was by a person from HR and I was scheduled for the second round of interview with the data analytic group. There was a business case and they are mostly interest in business sort of answers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me about a real question they were challenging with at the moment.