I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2016
Interview
Three technical phone interviews. The interviewer ask a lot of questions on your resume and give some technical questions like basic OO design issue and basic coding questions. The conversation with interviewer is pleasant. I was asked a lot of questions , most of them are easy but they decided that I failed the interview because I have trouble with one question. They did not tell me which one that I was failed on. I guess although questions in general are easy, you have to be 100% spot on in order to pass the interview.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
How do you do a OO design on list of animals in the Zoo ?
Given a integer , return corresponding ASCII char representation without using language building in feature.
ex. input interger 1234, return "1234" in string or characters
What a fibonacci function which return N th position number both in recursive and loop, also give the explanation on both implementation on their time efficiency.
apply online and then got an interview opportunity with the hackerrank test, after thet an hr call and then two rounds of tech interviews, after that there is a beharviour interview
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jun 2026
Interview
Two stages:
- Technical: consisted of two parts. The first one was a hands-on coding exercise where I had to solve a problem, and the second one was focused on system design.
- Culture fit
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked about idempotency, retry mechanisms, inter-process communication, observability, reliability, and scalability.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com
Interview
I recently interviewed with Booking.com for a software engineer role. The process was well-organized and took about 3–4 weeks. It started with an online assessment on HackerRank with a couple of LeetCode medium problems. That was followed by a technical screen where I did live coding and discussed basic algorithms. The final round was a full day of back-to-back sessions: algorithmic coding, system design (something like designing a hotel availability checker), a behavioral round using STAR questions, and a chat with a manager about company values. The interviewers were professional and friendly, and the problems felt relevant to Booking's actual business. On the downside, some coding rounds felt repetitive, and I didn't get much feedback after being rejected. Overall, it was a fair but challenging process. My advice: practice medium-level array and hash map problems, review basic system design, and have solid STAR stories ready. I'd rate it 4 out of 5 stars and would recommend it to other engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.