Software Developer 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 Developer 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 Developer 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 May 2017
Interview
HR recruiter found me via LinkedIn and submitted me as a candidate, I passed the first coding exam at hackerrank and failed in phone call code interview. technical recruiter was a great person and the whole experience was good.
They didn't ask me to run the solution in code interview, the just wanted to see how do I think. I was previously scared because I already did some solutions in codepair and in the same link that they sent (which supposed to store the code), but they told me not to worry about that. after about 3 hints I think I was judged as a weak developer. I kept talking about what I am doing and they were satisfied about that and they considered that I have a good communications skills.
questions in the first code test was from easy-group in hackerrank but the questions weren't ready questions in the website, they were prepared by booking.com. the major problem in code test at hackerrank was the time, and you should be prepared well for getting the inputs and outputs (stout, stdin).
I checked the reviews here and I saw a majority of persons who passed the first code tests but then failed in on-site test in Amsterdam, so I wasn't so optimistic about going there, even if I've passed the phone call interview.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
1- (Coding test at hackerrank) Specify types of the polygons (square, rectangle, polygon). They didn't provide the number of lines, and negative numbers should be considered as polygons, and square shouldn't be considered as rectangle.
2- (Coding test at hackerrank) You have a list of words and a list of hotel reviews, try to sort the hotels based on the number of words from the first list that is exist in the each review. if an hotel has maximum number of 4 words then it should be the highest in the sorting..
3- (Coding test at hackerrank) You have time-stamps (mentioned as integers), which represents phone call begin and end to booking.com call center. find the number of overlaps in calls that suggests to add more call center agents.
- (Phone call coding interview). You have two lists, the first contain larger words, write a method that finds if the anagram from the second list's word in the first list's word.
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
Interview questions [1]
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.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a hotel search and availability system that returns available rooms for a given date range and can handle high traffic.