I interviewed at Booking.com between February and May 2023. The process took 4 months and was very slow because a) they had low capacity for interviewees, and b) they give priority to internal candidates, so you have to wait.

The process consists of:

• Take-home assignment
• Technical Interview
• Skills Interview
• Culture Interview

You get a week to finish a task and submit it on HackerRank. In the second step, you meet with two engineers. It's basically a discussion of your task, your approach to the problem, a feature update and how you would handle that, and more discussions about Android technicalities.

The third step is more about system design and architecture. You meet with two more engineers and are given a small screen/flow that should be implemented. You should discuss how you're going to tackle that problem.

The fourth and last step is a meeting with your manager and maybe a product person or another manager. It's a free-flow discussion about your experience, motive, and situations.

The overall process was nice, and I enjoyed it. However, the fact that they give priority to internal candidates, which pop up at random times, is very annoying.

Task-specific questions

Architectural questions