In Booking, you feel valued from day 0. The opportunities for growth never stop appearing, and you can learn a lot from colleagues with years of experience in this business.
The architecture is complicated, but with the right guidance that is provided to you, everything is clear as long as you focus on one thing at a time.
Benefits are great, colleagues are wonderful, and you can meet people literally from all over the world working at the office, which is probably the best office I have ever worked at (and maybe that I ever will).
Food at the restaurants is amazing, with a lot of choices. It is walking distance also from the Amsterdam Centraal station, so it is very easily accessible.
There are no downsides that I could mention at this moment of writing this review. As with every big company, though, when a decision has to be taken, it goes through many layers in the hierarchy, resulting in slow results.
It started with a recruiter call, then a frontend interview with three engineers, then a backend and system design interview with two engineers. Finally, a fit interview with two engineering managers.
1. HackerRank pre-test 2. Recruiter call (15 min). Basic introductions and discussion of detailed guidelines. 3. Frontend Interview (60 min). Frontend live coding test on the HackerRank platform. 4. Backend followed by System Design Interview (75
The interview process began with a HackerRank test. The questions covered HTML/CSS/JavaScript, time complexity, and algorithms of average difficulty. The test for the last question provided by Booking was incorrect. I struggled for a while because I
It started with a recruiter call, then a frontend interview with three engineers, then a backend and system design interview with two engineers. Finally, a fit interview with two engineering managers.
1. HackerRank pre-test 2. Recruiter call (15 min). Basic introductions and discussion of detailed guidelines. 3. Frontend Interview (60 min). Frontend live coding test on the HackerRank platform. 4. Backend followed by System Design Interview (75
The interview process began with a HackerRank test. The questions covered HTML/CSS/JavaScript, time complexity, and algorithms of average difficulty. The test for the last question provided by Booking was incorrect. I struggled for a while because I