Booking.com HR Interview

Questions:

• Why are you interested in Booking.com?

1. Working on scalability problems, that are tough and represent a huge learning opportunity. 
2. Moving around for the first 12 months, and getting exposed to different teams and project is really awesome for learning, experience sharing and knowing new people.
3. The idea of each team as a small startup is great, because it has a huge space for innovation.
4. 

• What is the most challenging task you have faced?

Google maps like project.

• What is it like to work at Booking.com?

Check Quora for the answer.

• Who are the founders of booking.com?

The founder of Bookings dot nl was Geert-Jan Bruisma. His business model included a number of resellers, the largest of which bought him out and took over the company. The team around Kees Koolen and Arthur Kosten took over the company and grew it a lot. Geert-Jan left the company and pursued other activities.

In 2006, Kees and his management team sold the company to Priceline, in order to finance growth. Before aquiring Bookings, Priceline aquired a UK hotel company, Active Hotels, and later integrated them into Bookings, renaming the resulting company Booking dot com.

Priceline decided to leave the management of the new Booking to Kees Koolen, who managed to grow the business between 50 and 70 percent year-on-year. What has been less than 3 percent of the total Priceline group of companies in 2006 is now over ninety percent of the current, much larger Priceline Group. Good for William Shatner, one of the Priceline investors. 

Geert-Jan has since returned to Booking and is currently holding a position in IT.

source: https://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-founders-of-booking-com 

• Who is the CEO?

Darren R. Huston

General Preperation:

• Model answers for booking.com behavioral interview questions
• Coding test preparation
• Business questions always say we need data to make decisions
• SQL databases
• Search for people who work there using linkedin
• Expect a design question

• How booking make money

Takes commission from the hotels on each reservation

Direct Advertising on the website

Deals and offers

Booking reserve rooms for a period of time from the hotels and resell these rooms and it takes the risk of not selling these rooms

They sell data and reports to market based on their analytics