2 interviewers, senior UX designers. You talk a bit about yourself. Then they ask you how you make your decisions and how you validate them. They are looking in which ways you get information to base your decisions on.
Then they give you live coding exercise in jsfiddle. It’s simple, but has a few gotchas, so take it slow, although the level of tolerance on error on their side is much higher then for the rest of the process. They asked me why I used <nav> in the code, but that was mostly it.
After that you present them with a few improvements for their website. Be cautious, they will ask you how many examples you have prepared. Thinking that it will add value I’ve prepared more than 30 cases backed up, but they weren’t impressed with it and deemed it in later feedback as “quantity over quality” (without hearing them first).
At the end you are given a few minutes to ask them any questions. I asked them a little bit provoking question and didn’t get a straight answer, but they were very nice (“What is your worst day in Booking.com?”)
Everything is legit and I’m satisfied with the experience, but the phone interview with one of the guys talking really poor English AND putting me on speaker in a huge room with a ton of reverb is just ridiculous. If you say the phone connection will affect the interview result then better make sure I’m hearing you right in the first place (they can buy a headset splitter for like $5).
The feedback I’ve got why I haven’t passed is mostly precise and up to the point and it serves me for future improvements.
Keep in mind that they are looking at the clock, so you need to be very punctual, precise and up to the point. They are kind, but don’t get carried away with that, they don’t like too much talking (even if you really think you have something more to say), and you will be evaluated for that as well. That’s the mistake I made.