heading into a content/marketing strategy role interview at Booking.com in about three weeks and the thread history here is mostly engineering-focused. makes sense, they're a big eng shop, but I'd love to hear from anyone who's gone through a non-eng loop recently.
specifically curious about: how structured is the competency framework for non-technical roles? is the take-home assessment thing also a thing for marketing? and for people in any function, what's the energy like during the actual interviews? do the interviewers seem invested or is it rote?
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marketer_mei
I went through a PMM loop there about 8 months ago. no take-home for me, but there was a 30-minute presentation round where I had to walk through a positioning exercise they gave me 48 hours before. the competency framework is the same for all roles, just the examples you give differ. interviewers seemed genuinely engaged, not reading off a sheet.
nonprofit_nia
I went through an ops role loop. 5 rounds total. the competency interviews were actually my favorite part, weirdly, because the interviewers pushed back in a way that felt like real debate, not gotcha questions. the Amsterdam time zone can make scheduling painful if you're US-based for the initial rounds though.
laidoff_lena
for marketing roles the thing they really care about is data fluency. not "I used GA" but "here is how I measured incrementality and why." they are extremely metric-oriented even on the brand side.