Booking.com Software Engineer interview experience

Then I moved into a technical interview with two engineers where I had to write code live to solve a problem, followed by a system design interview.

The interviews felt average in difficulty, but the momentum varied. In one part of the process, there was also a second round focused on behavior or role fit, and overall it seemed like they cared about how I communicated while coding and reasoning through problems.

Even though things went “okay,” I knew afterward that I wasn’t sufficiently prepared for the technical round—especially because the technical interview centered on data structures