How Booking.com interviews
For the Compass Software Engineering Graduate Programme, Booking.com runs a four-stage process: a CV application, an at-home technical test, a recruiter phone interview, and an in-person assessment centre that pairs one-on-one interviews with group activities.
Technical roles can extend the loop, and the firm's general hiring guidance puts most processes at roughly three to six weeks end-to-end. Because the at-home test sits before the recruiter call, the early commitment is a coding submission rather than a conversation, and a candidate running several programmes in parallel is working through technical assessments before getting any human signal back.