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      Software Developer Interview

      15 Jun 2017
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Amsterdam
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jun 2017

      Interview

      I applied for the Senior iOS Developer role in Amsterdam. In a week or so received an answer that they've reviewed my application and it's a great fit, and the next step is a Hackerrank test. They sent me an invitation to do a test at Hackerrank, that consisted of 4 algorithm questions that you have to solve in just 75 minutes. My initial thought was that it's too little time to solve all of them. So I got through this page at Glassdoor and found out that a lot of people actually saying the same. Most of the people didn't even have enough time to go through 2-3 of 4. Which is totally reasonable, considering. At other companies they give you around 2-2.5 hours to solve 2-3 questions. Here, you have to solve every algorithm in just 18 minutes. Besides, they don't even allow you to use other languages but Objective-C. No Swift even. C'mon guys, I know you're stuck with Objective-C in your production, but it's 2017, Swift 4.0 is out already. Get real. Anyway, I was prepared and I solved all of them. Maybe my solutions were not ideal, but I had to understand the question, find a solution and write it in a freaking Obj-C in just 18 minutes each. In 5 days after passing a test I got a feedback from them, that based on the reviewing my resume and my test score I am not a fit for a senior role, but would be a fit for a core iOS role, which they don't have. If you looked at my resume before and I'm not a fit, why the hell you sent me a Hackerrank test?! And if my score is that bad, I wonder how many people can actually do 4 algorithm questions in 18 minutes each, in Obj-C only, and have a great score (considering I passed all of them just fine)? They just don't bother at all about your energy and time wasted on those stupid tests. No wonder the reviews in this company are generally not that good.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Given an array of words as NSStrings you should return another array of NSStrings, each containing words that are mutual anagrams
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      We have the interface for a class Person which has settable firstname, middlename and lastname properties. It also has a fullname read-only property, which should return the person's name
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      Identify whether four sides can form a square, a rectangle or neither.
      Answer question

      Question 4

      Given an array of NSNumbers output a delta encoding for the sequence
      Answer question
      1

      Other Software Developer interview reviews for Booking.com

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      13 Jun 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Amsterdam
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      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

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      Software Engineer Interview

      23 May 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      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]

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      Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.
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      Software Engineer Interview

      23 Apr 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Amsterdam
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam)

      Interview

      The whole process is composed of about 5 stages. Initial interview, then technical interview, followed by a “ownership” interview, then by a team-fit check interview. The initial interview is done by recruiters not based in the Netherlands (at least my experience) and felt as if the role had already been filled by the time I took it. Was answered with a “I’m doing good, hope you are doing good too. So this interview…” to “Hi, nice to meet you! How are you?”. It simply felt as if they didn’t want to be there and there was 0 engagement.