iOS Developer Interview Experience - Toronto, Canada
December 1, 2013
Negative ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Applied via the website. About a week later, I was called by HR for an initial phone screening.
The job required relocation to Amsterdam, so they wanted to make sure I was good with that.
We discussed:
- The company
- The location
- What they offer
- Their awesome (so they say) Christmas party.
Questions
They asked a lot of iOS questions, and some general programming questions.
The first question they asked was so obscure that I didn't even really understand it. I was probably dead from that point on.
Another question was to figure out a way to combine three lists of items where an item would be placed in a destination array if it existed in any two of the source arrays.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Booking.com iOS Developer role in Toronto, Ontario.
Success Rate
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Pass Rate
Booking.com's interview process for their iOS Developer roles in Toronto, Ontario is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
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Negative100%
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Booking.com's iOS Developer interview process in Toronto, Ontario.
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Cons: Very outdated technologies.
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The manager and principal intimidate all the time. Very political.
I worked on an important system, and senior devs just stopped development because they didn't want competition.
I found another job and now sleep well.
Be careful, because you will be working on very old and outdated technologies with updates.
Some seniors don't develop at all; they control other developers and play political games, such as implementing different policies and holding tons of meetings.
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- Work with highly skilled engineers.
Cons: My impression was that they don't tolerate people who are different.
I know a lot of people say that it's a supportive environment, but in my case, it wasn't.
They advertise that the company is against favoritism, but in practice, two people who committed the same kinds of mistakes are treated in vastly different ways, depending on whether they are liked or not.
Gossiping and being mean is the norm.
In general, I felt miserable while working there.
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