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I see booking.com's BOT posting the same multiple jobs on @whoishiring's thread every month. Ex: Sept 2017 => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148950 http

I see booking.com's BOT posting the same multiple jobs on @whoishiring's thread every month. Ex: Sept 2017 => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148950 Looking at all the negative observations about booking.com here, I'm curious. Has anyone from here actually applied to any of their job postings on @whoishiring ? How has your experience been? The one positive thing I've seen is that they mention that they sponsor work visas for their successful candidates (in Europe / Amsterdam location only I think).

siscia 9y ago
I did. I received an offer that I turned down for unreleated reasons. My experience is of some years ago (2/3 years). A very nice experience honestly, great process of interview.
dsego 9y ago
I did, two years ago. It was okay, one or two skype interviews, including a live coding one, and also a technical challenge on HackerRank. They also want to hear about suggestions and ideas for improving the site, how to implement and measure the impact. It helps to read their tech blogs and learn about the way they do things. I think dutch also give a tax exemption for employees who were hired abroad.
sAbakumoff 9y ago
booking.com hiring process is very well established, there is nothing wrong with it.
graton 9y ago
I've considered applying but I didn't like the idea of becoming a Perl developer to be honest. If they were looking for Go or Python developers I would probably have applied by now as I think Amsterdam is a great city.
- hackits 9y ago
  When I was contacted they where looking for over-all experienced developers. From listening to some of their developers podcasts they found most developer picked up Perl development and didn't have any problems with the language. At the time was following `Damian Gryski‏` presentations how they used redis for their cookie management for such a large web-site. Also was reading into their back-end systems and over-all cultural inside the business. Though was super excited about the interview with them although froze up during the interview process. Nice to see other people here went through the interview processes and had a great time. I just suck at interviews.
diegoallen 9y ago
Recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. Went through the process. It was a Hacker Rank challenge, technical phone interview with coding, on-site interview with coding, systems design and culture fit interviews.

siscia 9y ago

I did. I received an offer that I turned down for unreleated reasons. My experience is of some years ago (2/3 years). A very nice experience honestly, great process of interview.

dsego 9y ago

I did, two years ago. It was okay, one or two skype interviews, including a live coding one, and also a technical challenge on HackerRank. They also want to hear about suggestions and ideas for improving the site, how to implement and measure the impact. It helps to read their tech blogs and learn about the way they do things. I think dutch also give a tax exemption for employees who were hired abroad.

sAbakumoff 9y ago

booking.com hiring process is very well established, there is nothing wrong with it.

graton 9y ago

I've considered applying but I didn't like the idea of becoming a Perl developer to be honest. If they were looking for Go or Python developers I would probably have applied by now as I think Amsterdam is a great city.

hackits 9y ago
When I was contacted they where looking for over-all experienced developers. From listening to some of their developers podcasts they found most developer picked up Perl development and didn't have any problems with the language. At the time was following `Damian Gryski‏` presentations how they used redis for their cookie management for such a large web-site. Also was reading into their back-end systems and over-all cultural inside the business. Though was super excited about the interview with them although froze up during the interview process. Nice to see other people here went through the interview processes and had a great time. I just suck at interviews.

diegoallen 9y ago

Recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn. Went through the process. It was a Hacker Rank challenge, technical phone interview with coding, on-site interview with coding, systems design and culture fit interviews.