Software Developer Interview Experience - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Process
First, there were four problems to solve on HackerRank.
After passing that part, I was contacted and interviewed by a technology recruiter. This involved common questions about my background and skills.
After that, I had a phone screen interview with two tasks, lasting 45 minutes. I did not pass this interview.
Questions
You have a function f(p) that returns an array of linked pages.
For example:
f(homepage) = {page1, page2, page3}f(page1) = {page4, page5}
If there are no linked pages, the function will return null. We say a site is a "good site" if any page on that site can be reached in less than 6 clicks. The task was to write a function that checks if a site is a good site or not, using f(p).
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Booking.com Software Developer role in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Success Rate
Booking.com's interview process for their Software Developer roles in Bosnia and Herzegovina is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
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Booking.com Work Experiences
- 4.0Great Team, Tough PromotionSoftware Developer • Current EmployeeAmsterdam, North Holland, NetherlandsDecember 4, 2020Pros: 1. Good salary 2. Big scale 3. Have many talented peopleCons: 1. Hard to get promotion without good networking.
- 5.0Simply Nice Place To WorkSoftware Developer • Current EmployeeAmsterdam, NetherlandsMarch 4, 2023Pros: It is nice to work here.Cons: There is none at this moment.
- 1.0Run away from this ancient tech companySoftware Developer • Current EmployeeAmsterdam, North Holland, NetherlandsMarch 4, 2017Pros: Nice people, pleasant atmosphere, nice office, good lunch, great work-life balance, good salary (compared to most other Dutch companies).Cons: For back-end developers, Booking.com has absolutely nothing to offer. The quality of code is just horrific, and building on top of a house of cards is the norm. OO? Tests? TDD? DDD? Any design at all? Forget about it. 2000-line Perl functions with 1000-line if-else statements are perfectly normal and not even frowned upon, even by principal engineers. Perl is still the language you will work in (despite what they say in interviews), and Perl is simply unfit for building quality back-end systems. There are a few teams doing cool stuff, but you have to wait 8-20 (!) months before you can pick a team you like. Run away from this company if you want to learn anything useful as a back-end developer. You'll be a worse programmer when you come out compared to when you came in. Do join, though, if you want to go back 15 years in time.
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