Diary of a Data Scientist at Booking.com – Towards Data Science

I joined Booking.com as a data scientist about two and a half years back, straight after a 3 years consulting gig in Dubai. Moving from consulting to a pure data science role was a big shift in my career and in hindsight I'm very happy I made that choice. In fact, I was already impressed with the company during my interviews. What I liked the most was that I was interviewed by peers who were already in the same role, which allowed for many'quality' interactions during the process and reaffirmed the recruiter's claim that the company had a'flat hierarchy'. Also the background of the interviewers was very diverse and interesting -- one had a PhD in astronomy, and the other was CTO of his own startup.