Booking.com Product Owner interview questions

I applied in august 2016 and after the interview with HR & the technical interview on the phone I had been left to wait more than one month, then after receiving a positive answer put on hold until January 2017 which prolonged until mars when I was asked to have an extra technical interview on the phone which I passed. Then again on hold for 1 month until I had the last interview because the HR lady was either on vacation several times, either "very busy with all the emails & candidates" as she said. So in total 10 months since I applied! I think I called her and emailed her more than 50 times. She couldn't care less about me and understood how it was going to be in the company. (side note: I hope she'll get a raise cause she's very good at what she does!) The first f2f interview was interesting – you have to present a case study that you prepare at home, but they don't even give you all the information and then they ask to prioritize ideas & measure impact based on that data. How am I supposed to do that well, when the data is incomplete and the only contact you have is the HR lady who doesn't even answer to your questions and probably doesn't even understand her job? But at the end I received positive feedback about that part. Funny, I know! The second interview and in general all 3 f2f interviews are filled with super specific questions about so little things that they even forget the bigger picture. This role, I understood is more of an A/B tester that has to try hundreds of tests to get a small 0,005% conversion for some small part of the website page (they call this "data-driven"). Too much optimization and no innovation at all! Very uninteresting for such a role. They should look at their score on glassdoor and what their employees are saying about that. That is why I am finally happy they didn't take me, cause I don't want to be spending my days thinking about how to "think small" (this is what they said at an interview - "your ideas are too big"). They are so scared to change something more than just a comma ... I applied for this role because I truly believed I could have a real contribution to the growth of the business and to the improvement of the user experience, but I understood I would only be assigned to work on an incredibly small part of the website. The Product director told me there are several people working on different parts of the same page and that sometimes their attributions even overlap ! When I read the glassodoor reviews from employees complaining about all of that I thought it wasn't real, but hearing it directly from a director made me realize it's not my place there. Oh and this is my second application. The first time I had the same problems with another HR lady (I think this role is doomed at booking – they should invest in some serious training, not in hair-rolling techniques these girls seem to master) and she even forgot me in the interview room after the office tour !!! after 40 min of waiting she came by and realized I was still there, waiting for her. Super professional.

Company replayed soon after applying for the position. Easy going 20 minute interview by telephone. Felt comfortable with the whole process. This was just the first step. The second step would been an interview with two other Product Owner and lastly the final interview would be in Amsterdam HQ.