Booking.com interview notes, page 1 of 2

“My first instinct was greedy and I think that's the right call, but I fumbled the implementation for a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Booking.com, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started by scoping the problem before jumping into solutions, which was the right call.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Booking.com, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went down a rabbit hole defining CLV before even touching the homepage, which in retrospect ate up a lot of time.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Booking.com, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to triage the legal issues by severity and I said that out loud, which felt right, but I spent too long on that part and didn't get to the stakeholder communication angle fast enough.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Booking.com, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to nest loops and I caught myself before writing it out, which felt like a small win.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Booking.com, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew the sorted-key hashmap approach pretty much immediately, sort each string, use it as a key, bucket the originals under it.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Booking.com, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled this a bit because it sounds easy and then you're mid-answer realizing you're just listing generic stuff.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Booking.com, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic CS fundamentals question.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Booking.com, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first minute just restating the user story back to them which, in retrospect, was a waste of time.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Booking.com, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The output format question tripped me up more than the logic itself.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Booking.com, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.