Senior Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Booking.com with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 45% positive. To compare, the company-average is 59% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Senior Software Engineer roles take an average of 24 days to get hired, when considering 33 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 Senior Software Engineer according to 33 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 12%
One on one interview: 9%
Group panel interview: 9%
Other: 6%
Personality test: 5%
Background check: 5%
Drug test: 5%
IQ intelligence test: 3%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in May 2022
Interview
Hacker rank test followed by two technical rounds - coding and system design.
Interviewers had bad accent due to which it was hard to understand them. They expected only fixed solutions known to them. Declined the offer after interacting with their interviewers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Coding:
Given a list of rooms. Each room has a room id, price, startDay, and endDay. Mergeg rooms with same room id and value, provided their intervals extend each other. For eg (start,end day) = (5,7) can be merged with (8,11). Output should only have (5,11).
Design:
Messaging service to send email, fax, or api call to hotel partners.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com (Toronto, ON) in Oct 2025
Interview
Completed an initial phone screen with an HR representative where we discussed the role responsibilities, team structure, company culture, and walked through the full interview process and expected next steps.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com (Bengaluru) in Aug 2025
Interview
3 Rounds
1. Coding Round (Online - Hackerank) - Given frontend and backend (API) problem.
2. Technical Round - Ask question on 1st round and what you did in past, System Design question.
3. Manger Round
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Jul 2025
Interview
first interview - HR
second interview - leetcode style
third interview - design (didn't pass it). recruiter was very kind (I have to reschedule few times and she handle it respectfully)
leetcode was not trivial but went ok. the design interview didn't went well, i could not get the feedback from the interviewer during the interview he was not comunicating