Booking.com Software Engineer interview experience

I had an online assessment that felt fairly standard for the role, followed by a take-home assignment. The later stages were more interactive: I went through a set of interviews that included technical, behavioral, and a teamwork-focused session.

The difficulty felt moderate to challenging overall. What stood out was how much the process emphasized collaboration and communication, not just getting to a correct answer. In my assessment experience, there was both a coding component and a team element—my team task involved designing a new hackathon-style event—so I wasn’t just writing code