Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Booking.com as 66.7% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3.33 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Account Executive and Data Engineer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Account Executive and Product Owner Finance roles were rated as the easiest.
The hiring process at Booking.com takes an average of 3 days when considering 3 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for Product Owner Finance had the quickest hiring process (on average 3 days), whereas Product Owner Finance roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 3 days).
First phone interview with HR from Amsterdam.
Second interview with team leads from the location where I applied.
Third interview with the area manager and team lead presenting a case study.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Booking.com in Feb 2024
Interview
I attended 2 stages, there was a language test which had three stages and a phone call.
Language test: Round 1 - three parts, select the correct spelling of a word and select the missing word. The third task was to listen to a scenario and select which statement from three I think would be the best and worst reply.
Mutually decided not to continue with the interview due to experience being more than the job spec and salary expectations not being met.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Phone call interview:
Where do you live now?
When are you available to start?
Are you willing to start on X date?
What are your salary expectations?
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Dec 2023
Interview
- Recruiter’s Call: Motivation, recent experiences. etc.
- Live Coding (1 Hour): Code on Hackerrank. No need to run and test the code.
- System Design and monitoring (75 minutes)
- Cultural Fit (1 Hour): This round was super weird.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
- Live Coding: Easy problem related to recursion. Calculate time and space complexity.
- System Design: Design a part of Booking’s internal system.
- Cultural Fit: I had a bad experience in this round. One of the interviewers often frowned and was very dismissive. Asked odd questions:
- What is the size of your company
- How many people work in your company
- Explain to me the hierarchy of the company