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Comment by mitul_45 | Hacker News Reader

Well, I am joining Booking.com as frontend engineer this November and this makes me a bit worried. The only reason I chose to join Booking was Amsterdam (I wanted to live/work outside India for a couple of years).

I have also heard the tech stack is kind of old and so learning-wise it might be an issue. Any tips on surviving and keeping the learning curve straight from a current/former employee?

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Congrats first of all. However did you tell Booking about your motivation to join them - "The only reason I chose to join Booking was Amsterdam (I wanted to live/work outside India for a couple of years)". Its pretty standard for companies to ask that question.

Nah. That's one of the major reasons. Others being - working with a diverse culture, working on a big scale such as theirs, and building things based on data rather than opinions.

Hey! Congrats! I'm just curious about interview process in Booking.com. Are they same as typical data structures and algorithms oriented interviews? Did they let you know about their tech stack?

Yeah, questions were pretty much same you found on the internet. About the tech stack, they do let us know a little but mostly it depends on the team you land on.

The tech stack is Perl+MySQL. Ancillary tech is Go, Rust, Java, C. Lots of Javascript.

Very high delivery velocity (You will be expected to roll out code in your first week).

Thanks for the tip! Are you in Amsterdam? Would love to catch up in the first week, if you are around.

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