Mobile Developer Interview Experience - Ukraine
February 29, 2016
Positive ExperienceGot Offer
Process
An HR employee contacted me for an invitation for a phone interview.
A phone interview with two engineers, covering an algorithmic question and topics related to Android lifecycles, services, and fragments.
Two face-to-face interviews followed, each with two developers. I answered one algorithmic question in each interview and was asked Android-related questions that would be easy for above-average Android developers. I was also asked business questions requiring a developer with relevant experience.
Questions
Questions about Pascal's Triangle.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Booking.com Mobile Developer role in Ukraine.
Success Rate
100%
Pass Rate
Booking.com's interview process for their Mobile Developer roles in Ukraine is incredibly easy as the vast majority of engineers get an offer after going through it.
Experience Rating
Positive100%
Neutral0%
Negative0%
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Booking.com's Mobile Developer interview process in Ukraine.
Booking.com Work Experiences
4.0
Good Balance, Vision Varies
Software Developer • Current Employee
March 15, 2021
Pros: Work-life balance is important. The company cares about its employees. Internal team switches are possible. If you select a good team, you can work on good projects. So, it totally depends on you if you want to improve or just do repetitive work and complain.
Cons: In one of my teams, I had a great Product Manager and a Senior PM. So, we had a great vision. But then, in another team, I felt there was no vision. Everyone was working randomly and without a concrete idea about where we saw the team in the next two or three years.
4.0
Great culture & values, not super exciting tech
Senior Machine Learning Engineer • Current Employee
Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 9, 2023
Pros: Great growth opportunities for soft skills, product management, networking, etc. Great experimentation culture – you always know when some new feature is successful or not, and these things matter during review. Fantastic office & benefits. A carefully built, welcoming culture of learning, experimentation, mentoring, and growth. I've never seen anything like this :)
Interesting technical challenges given the high load, to an extent. The tech part is not the company's strong suit if you're comparing this to FAANG, but if you're in a team that doesn't actively maintain 20-years-old legacy, it's fine.
Cons: 1. Not a tech company at its heart. A lot of things that in Google or Facebook or wherever would be done by dedicated DevOps or infrastructure teams are done by product devs with a bunch of bash scripts and cron jobs. This leads to some frustration and some wasted time. If you have ambitions of making a new programming language, developing the coolest in-house cloud in the world, or something equally risky and large-scale, Booking is probably not the right place.
2. Ancient tech stack that is literally older than me. This is improving, but not as fast as you would hope, partly because of point 1: people are focused on improving the product and not necessarily streamlining development. I'm working with a relatively modern tech stack (recent Java), and I try to stay away from the legacy code. If you're interviewing for a job, be sure to ask about the tech stack of your specific team.
5.0
I like it
Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
September 7, 2024
Pros: Good benefits, good salary, okay projects.
Cons: Projects are not super interesting, but okay.
- 4.0Good Balance, Vision VariesSoftware Developer • Current EmployeeMarch 15, 2021Pros: Work-life balance is important. The company cares about its employees. Internal team switches are possible. If you select a good team, you can work on good projects. So, it totally depends on you if you want to improve or just do repetitive work and complain.Cons: In one of my teams, I had a great Product Manager and a Senior PM. So, we had a great vision. But then, in another team, I felt there was no vision. Everyone was working randomly and without a concrete idea about where we saw the team in the next two or three years.
- 4.0Great culture & values, not super exciting techSenior Machine Learning Engineer • Current EmployeeAmsterdam, NetherlandsJune 9, 2023Pros: Great growth opportunities for soft skills, product management, networking, etc. Great experimentation culture – you always know when some new feature is successful or not, and these things matter during review. Fantastic office & benefits. A carefully built, welcoming culture of learning, experimentation, mentoring, and growth. I've never seen anything like this :) Interesting technical challenges given the high load, to an extent. The tech part is not the company's strong suit if you're comparing this to FAANG, but if you're in a team that doesn't actively maintain 20-years-old legacy, it's fine.Cons: 1. Not a tech company at its heart. A lot of things that in Google or Facebook or wherever would be done by dedicated DevOps or infrastructure teams are done by product devs with a bunch of bash scripts and cron jobs. This leads to some frustration and some wasted time. If you have ambitions of making a new programming language, developing the coolest in-house cloud in the world, or something equally risky and large-scale, Booking is probably not the right place. 2. Ancient tech stack that is literally older than me. This is improving, but not as fast as you would hope, partly because of point 1: people are focused on improving the product and not necessarily streamlining development. I'm working with a relatively modern tech stack (recent Java), and I try to stay away from the legacy code. If you're interviewing for a job, be sure to ask about the tech stack of your specific team.
- 5.0I like itSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeLondon, England, United KingdomSeptember 7, 2024Pros: Good benefits, good salary, okay projects.Cons: Projects are not super interesting, but okay.
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