Two phone screens and an onsite consisting of 3 technical and 2 non-technical interviews. I heard some very positive reviews about their culture and office space. Let me be very blunt here. The recruiting co-ordinator was 'super lazy' and was spewing negative vibes. Every question I had was answered with either a yes/no. She showed the office around and my honest impression was that it was a 'ZOO'. I understand the significance of decorating the office space to reflect your company culture. But common guys, artificial trees and stuffed animals in restrooms? You must be kidding me. Interviewers would walk in into the interview room (or so it was called), introduce themselves (2-3 min), ask for my introduction (2-3 min) and some banter about airbnb(3-4 min). They would start off with explaining the coding question and all the constraints they need the solution to satisfy (5 min). Now you would be left with 25-30 minutes to actually get a working solution. (You would need to be a ninja who had seen the question to clear this). My interview room was decorated after some travel items and some music items. Interview room had 3 small foldable wooden chairs which were ALWAYS creaking. My first interviewer sat on one of those chairs and immediately stood up wondering when that would collapse. This, my friends, was airbnb revelling in its own culture. Half the conference rooms had benches and crude furniture. I am certainly glad that they did not switch the standard ergonomic furniture with their themed half-torn, dusty versions and claim that their office was better reflecting their culture. The non-technical-interviews were a disaster in their own making. I was asked about what drew me to airbnb and what weird qualities I possessed to qualify for working at that zoo. Right after the second interview, I made up my mind that this was not the place I wanted to work at (no matter how crazy their valuations were). The subsequent interviews only reinforced my decision. Tip: Try using a terser language for their coding solutions. I was using Java and by the time I created their input of List<List<List<CustomObject>>> half my interview time was over.

Pretty standard engineering interview. Recruiter call, technical interview, system design. They also had a code review interview that I had never seen before. I thought it was a little trickier than average, but not horrible. Sucks that if you don't move to the next round you can't reapply for a year.