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).
I interviewed at Booking.com (Manchester, England)
Interview
In total there were 4 interviews. First with People Team then with manager 1 after with Director of the unit. Between each interview it was around two weeks wait. with both managers all good and smooth. It was the math exam that if not prepared wouldnt have made it.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Math exams, past roles, how to apply it in this current job
Fairly average. Three interviews with recruiter, hiring manager and teammates to assess knowledge and cultural fit. Nothing surprised me, but I come from a similar tech company with the same culture.
I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Booking.com in Sep 2023
Interview
Had 4 stages,
1 hackerank test
2nd interview with recruiter (I got ghosted for about 5 weeks from application).
3rd stage Interview with another recruiter. After which I got sent some study topics for the next interview. The interview was related to mostly streaming and a few algorithm topics.
4th stage Hackerank live code test with 2 interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding Interview There were 3 questions, and the first 2 questions was something similar to the hackerank test. It had to to do with aggregating streams. The second question was related to topological sorting. Ordering tasks based on dependencies. Something similar to what you'll have in a dag.