I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Booking.com in May 2015
Interview
The interview consisted of two parts.
During the first part I was asked to illustrate both my academic and working background to the interviewers.
During the second part, the interviewer presented me a programming problem that had to be solved using any language I felt comfortable using.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Given an unlimited stream of characters, that can only be read one character at a time, using a specific function (e.g. getChar()), and a list of patterns (e.g. "cat", "dog", "man"), write an algorithm to find all the occurrences of the patterns in the stream.
2. Perform a "test run" of the algorithm in order to assess strong points, weak points and, eventually bugs.
3. Give an estimate of the temporal complexity of the proposed algorithm (e.g. O(x))
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jan 2026
Interview
Got an online assessment, aced it perfectly, but still got a generic rejection letter. I have no idea why they sent me the OA if they are just in the plan to reject me however I did the OA.
First a very easy coding test, After passing the coding test, a personality test is conducted, and then an HR call is made. I got rejected after an HR call.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What Software Engineering Principles did you use in your project?
I interviewed at Booking.com (Manchester, England)
Interview
Everyone was nice and the whole experience is smooth. The first round is a hackerrank test, and then is a harver personality test, and then is the hr interview and the last is AC.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Common competency BQ questions (Speak of a time...)