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 an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Booking.com in Dec 2015
Interview
I've sent my resume through a referrer. In a week or less, after my friend have submited my CV on their referral system, I received an email from an HR person from Booking. We scheduled a phone call. Also I received an email from Hackerrank to make an exam.
I made the exam before the scheduled HR call. The exercises were difficult. Be prepared before making them. Don't rush into the exam.
The HR call was nice, the interviewer talked very clear. Asked me about my work experience, and my objectives.
After that, I scheduled a technical interview with Booking. I got really nervous in this interview and got stuck at the first exercise. They were exercises about hashing, mapping, and managing large ammounts of data to query something. Be aware of the Big O notation.
They didn't offered me another interview after this one.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What's the time complexity of your solution? Can you make it linear?
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.