Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Booking.com with 3.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 59% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 126 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Booking.com overall takes an average of 25 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Booking.com as a Software Engineer according to 126 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 36%
Skills test: 16%
One on one interview: 13%
Group panel interview: 11%
Presentation: 11%
Background check: 6%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Other: 2%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jan 2026
Interview
I was reached out by a recruiter, had 2 rounds of intro meetings then 3 interviews: System Design, Coding, Culture. The interviewers were really nice. I've studied a lot in short amount of time to fill my gaps and tried my best. After a week from the final interview I've sent an email to the talent coordinator to see if there were any updates; it has been one month and a week since I had the final interview and I have heard completely nothing from them not even a general rejection message. In my whole career I've never went through this long of a process and got ghosted like this before.
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Question 1
Three interviews :System Design, Coding, Culture.
- An extension to their current service.
- Cache.
-General questions about behaviour and personality.
apply online and then got an interview opportunity with the hackerrank test, after thet an hr call and then two rounds of tech interviews, after that there is a beharviour interview
I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdam) in Jun 2026
Interview
Two stages:
- Technical: consisted of two parts. The first one was a hands-on coding exercise where I had to solve a problem, and the second one was focused on system design.
- Culture fit
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Question 1
They asked about idempotency, retry mechanisms, inter-process communication, observability, reliability, and scalability.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com
Interview
I recently interviewed with Booking.com for a software engineer role. The process was well-organized and took about 3–4 weeks. It started with an online assessment on HackerRank with a couple of LeetCode medium problems. That was followed by a technical screen where I did live coding and discussed basic algorithms. The final round was a full day of back-to-back sessions: algorithmic coding, system design (something like designing a hotel availability checker), a behavioral round using STAR questions, and a chat with a manager about company values. The interviewers were professional and friendly, and the problems felt relevant to Booking's actual business. On the downside, some coding rounds felt repetitive, and I didn't get much feedback after being rejected. Overall, it was a fair but challenging process. My advice: practice medium-level array and hash map problems, review basic system design, and have solid STAR stories ready. I'd rate it 4 out of 5 stars and would recommend it to other engineers.
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Question 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.