Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Priceline.com with 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 39% positive. To compare, the company-average is 47.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 16 days to get hired, when considering 23 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Priceline.com overall takes an average of 26 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Priceline.com as a Software Engineer according to 23 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
One on one interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 17%
Skills test: 12%
Background check: 10%
Presentation: 5%
Drug test: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
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I applied online. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Priceline.com (New York, NY) in Dec 2016
Interview
Applied Online. 10 min recruiter call then phone round. Phone round was terrible. The interviewers were not letting me complete my answers! All the exact questions as specified in some of the other reviews on Glassdoor, were asked. But, the interviewers were rude and very unprofessional. They are basically a Java shop and need someone who has memorized all the internals of Java. Need textbook definitions else they'll say your answer is wrong. They asked me about HashMap chaining and I said "...after hashing, we find an index and have a linked list in each index to handle any collisions. Then I iterate through the linked list and find the element needed." She said no, that not how you do it, you have to use the equals() method! At this point, I got furious as it was almost the 10th time she interrupted me and didn't let me finish. At one point I ended up saying "If you interrupt me, then I can know how much you know, if not, you can know how much I know" and she still didn't stop. I'm glad I got out of this mess. I wonder what I would do if I ended up getting a job here. Very unprofessional and rude. She even asked me how I got my present job as I was working for the Big 4 in the Bay area. I ended the interview to save some self respect and I was in shock for about 1 hour after the interview.
Priceline should seriously consider training their interviewers in communication skills, interviewer skills and most importantly some politeness. YOU CANNOT GET SOMEONE TO JOIN YOUR COMPANY IF YOUR INTERVIEWERS "YELL" AT INTERVIEWEES IN AN INTERVIEW.
My advice to people applying here, please please please save yourself some time and self respect and go apply elsewhere.
I applied through other source. I interviewed at Priceline.com in Jan 2026
Interview
HR call with all details about tech stack, question on what techstack, version i have used, 3 technical rounds 1st basic java questions, 2nd LLD + frontend 3rd Hiring manager
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
round 1 technical questions on java. comparable vs comparator, string builder vs string buffer, hashmap, executor service. round 2 backend LLD + react FE questions - websockets, java vs javascript, call api without axios, websockets, LLD on cancellation system . i tried explaining but the interviewer had prepared how she wanted the design to be and was not able to understand my logic and flow, she wanted answer in the same way she knew
2 rounds, one screening/behavioral and one technical. Received offer after these rounds. Unorthodox technical but medium difficulty. Behavioral was more of a screen than a round of interviewing. High emphasis on resume.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Asked specific questions about each language listed on resume and for demo code on those specificities.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Priceline.com (Ontario, CA) in Feb 2023
Interview
Introduction- Manager, team and interview introduction few general technical java questions - encapsulation and abstraction in class and object, thread, deadlock, multithreading data structure code round- write code block for isAnagram function