Booking.com Software Engineer interview experience

I went through a medium LeetCode-style live coding task (using a BFS/DFS approach), followed by a system design stage and then a final interview. After that, I noticed a long silence—weeks of no updates—until I was informed the position had already been taken.

Later, a recruiter reached back out and offered to submit my profile for other roles. That led to repeating a live coding round because the new team didn’t want to rely on the earlier result, even though the task ended up being the same. After a system design and final interview in a row, I received an automated rejection email with no