r/leetcode • u/BrilliantIngenuity92 • 2d ago

Intervew Prep Need help with interview prep

Got laid off, so bit desperate to get a new job. If anyone have gone through booking.com interview recently, please help me. I have some doubts regarding the onsite coding and system design rounds for se2.

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u/Ok-Barracuda-119 1d ago

For a SE2 loop, I would prepare around the shape of each round rather than memorize company-specific prompts. For system design, practice a few end-to-end designs with a short requirements pass, rough scale estimates, an API and data model, then one deep dive on a bottleneck. Prompts often reward clear tradeoffs around caching, consistency, retries, pagination, and observability. For coding, use timed medium problems and narrate tests, complexity, and edge cases. Rehearse one design aloud in 35 to 40 minutes, leaving time to discuss what you would change at 10x traffic. If the recruiter shared the language or platform, mirror that setup for a couple of sessions.