Booking.com Compass
Helping students and recent graduates navigate their early and evolving careers
Pave your own career path
Our Booking.com Compass programmes
Data Science & Analytics Graduate Programme
Eligibility: 2024/2025 graduation
Start Date: September 2025
Applications Open: January 2025
Software Engineering Graduate Programme – Amsterdam
Eligibility: 2024/2025 graduation
Start Date: September 2025
Applications Open: January 2025
Software Engineering Apprenticeship Programme - Manchester
Start Date: September 2025
Applications Open: January 2025
Software Engineering Internship Programme - Amsterdam
Eligibility: 2026 graduation
Start Date: July 2025
Applications Open: November 2024
Software Engineering Graduate Programme – Shanghai
Eligibility: 2024/2025 graduation
Start Date: September 2025
Applications Open: January 2025
Find your place at Booking.com
Our graduate programmes, based in Amsterdam or Manchester, are a chance to develop great technical principles and working practices from talented mentors. You’ll be offered a permanent role with a clear pathway to step into your next career level.
If you have questions about our programmes, please reach out to graduates@booking.com or sign up to our Early Careers Talent Network to hear about upcoming events and job opportunities.
Our interview process
Craft a CV that demonstrates your love of learning and your interest in developing technical skills.
This is your opportunity to shine and showcase your technical abilities and assess if they are a good match for the role.
We want to learn more about your experience, expectations and motivations. Tell us what makes you, you.
A fun-filled day to get to know Booking.com, explore our culture and meet the team through one on one interviews and group activities.
What excites me most about the graduate software engineering program is how Booking.com explains the technology and working culture within the company.
Chenxu
Junior Software Engineer
Selection & Supply Tech
I’m working on features that have a huge impact on millions of travellers around the world. And I love that.
Paula
Junior Software Engineer
Fraud Team
I really like the structure of the program. The first week we’re given an introduction to the methodologies the software engineers use and there have been some new methodologies that I’ve never used before.
Biko
Junior Software Engineer
Rides Customer Group