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I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdã) in Jun 2017
Interview
I applied for the Senior iOS Developer role in Amsterdam. In a week or so received an answer that they've reviewed my application and it's a great fit, and the next step is a Hackerrank test.
They sent me an invitation to do a test at Hackerrank, that consisted of 4 algorithm questions that you have to solve in just 75 minutes.
My initial thought was that it's too little time to solve all of them. So I got through this page at Glassdoor and found out that a lot of people actually saying the same. Most of the people didn't even have enough time to go through 2-3 of 4. Which is totally reasonable, considering. At other companies they give you around 2-2.5 hours to solve 2-3 questions. Here, you have to solve every algorithm in just 18 minutes. Besides, they don't even allow you to use other languages but Objective-C. No Swift even. C'mon guys, I know you're stuck with Objective-C in your production, but it's 2017, Swift 4.0 is out already. Get real.
Anyway, I was prepared and I solved all of them. Maybe my solutions were not ideal, but I had to understand the question, find a solution and write it in a freaking Obj-C in just 18 minutes each.
In 5 days after passing a test I got a feedback from them, that based on the reviewing my resume and my test score I am not a fit for a senior role, but would be a fit for a core iOS role, which they don't have.
If you looked at my resume before and I'm not a fit, why the hell you sent me a Hackerrank test?! And if my score is that bad, I wonder how many people can actually do 4 algorithm questions in 18 minutes each, in Obj-C only, and have a great score (considering I passed all of them just fine)?
They just don't bother at all about your energy and time wasted on those stupid tests.
No wonder the reviews in this company are generally not that good.
Interview questions [4]
Question 1
Given an array of words as NSStrings you should return another array of NSStrings, each containing words that are mutual anagrams
We have the interface for a class Person which has settable firstname, middlename and lastname properties.
It also has a fullname read-only property, which should return the person's name
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdã) 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.
I applied online. I interviewed at Booking.com (Amsterdã) in Apr 2017
Interview
- A test on Hackerrank
- A phone interview with HR
- A technical phone interview about algorithms.
- A onsite interview with 3 rounds: algorithms, system design and culture fit.
Interviewers are quite nice and supportive, they tell me if I go to wrong direction and whether I did well or not.
Company paid for the trip to Amsterdam in 4 days. It's a lovely city.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Algorithms questions mostly about string. Can be solved by using sliding window technique or tries.