Booking.com Software Engineer interview experience

In the system design interview, I was asked to design a system to synchronize hotel availability that’s listed across multiple sites—examples like Booking, Airbnb, Agoda, and Expedia came up.

Before that system design part, there was an OA step, and then the process moved into the design discussion. The outcome was positive: I was selected for an SDE 2 role in Bangalore, which made the loop feel efficient and outcome-driven rather than drawn out with lots of separate rounds.

What I took away from it was that they weren’t trying to measure how many different topics I could cover—they were