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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Aug 29, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Seattle, WA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Airbnb (Seattle, WA) in Aug 2024

      Interview

      1 Code Screen and 1 Onsite. The onsite is: Code Review Engineering Experience Coding System Design There are some recruiter calls in between the rounds. I would say that you should practice speed for the Code Review round.

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      I guess the interviewer customizes all his questions based on the project you choose. Talk about a big project you were a part of. Why were you chosen to lead it? What were the steps you chose to implement it and why? Talk about the other teams you worked with. Talk about implementation details. How long did it take, how many people did you lead, and what were the challenges/ How did you define milestones and distribute work? How do you delegate work and make people successful vs. managing the overall timeline? What challenges did you have? What did you learn? What compromises did you have to make with the product manager's vision? What issues did you have with other teams? How did you maintain high quality, especially during the rollout? (Testing, Monitoring, alerting, rollout strategy) Hiring manager feedback - D.C. said I communicated very clearly, but that I have no sense of accountability or humility and that I spoke poorly of coworkers and treated them like "low performers" (his words, not mine). He also apparently spoke against me in the onsite debrief and didn't want me to join even at the G8 (~Software Engineer II) level. That is crazy. I have never had an issue in behavioral/eng. experience interviews before. The interviewer was D.C. He completely made up this detail about "low performers," and I don't understand why.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      You are given an array like [5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 3, 4, 0, 3, 4] Part 1: Print a terrain where each number represents the height of a column at that index. + ++ + + +++ ++ ++ ++++ ++ ++ +++++++ ++ ++++++++++ <--- base layer Part 2: Imagine we drop a certain amount of water at a certain column. The water can flow in whichever direction makes sense. Print the terrain after all the water has fallen. dumpWater(terrain, waterAmount=8, column=1) Should render + ++WWWW+ + +++WW++ ++ ++++W++ ++ +++++++W++ ++++++++++ <--- base layer
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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      Feb 11, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Airbnb in Feb 2026

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