[mitul_45]

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?

[akdumbagdum]

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.

[mitul_45]

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.

[Bharath1234]

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?

[mitul_45]

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.

[devdas]

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).

[mitul_45]

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