Airbnb Interview Questions

Phone Screen Multiple rounds of behavioral interviews plus an architecture interview. Overall pretty similar to most companies eng manager hiring process. Biggest difference is the presentation interview. Presentation interview was a fun change from the normal grilling with behavioral questions. Their deep commitment to cultural fit and hiring good people shows up across the entire interview process.

Tech rounds and leadership round were a good learning experience. The panel interaction was good. They tested on various skills. There were 2 rounds focused on Tech and 2 on leadership. Coding and system design was covered.

Challenging but meaningful. Lots of short informal interviews. No major presentations quantitative tests etc. Overall a pleasant and meaningful experience. Appropriate amount of difficulty and challenge. Did not receive and offer but felt quite pleased about the process

they ask questions about programming experience. They ask questions about the most familiar programming software ask about facing difficult situations give the programming question to solve after the interview they also ask about your salary requirement

Met with several members of the team, the hiring manager and their manager, the team’s talent partner, and also had 2 core value interviews. The core value interviews are to determine culture fit.

Everything went fine and I cannot complain about anything. Everybody who I was talking to was welcoming me in a warm way and I felt comfortable at all times. Theres nothing else I would add.

On-site exercise (2 hrs prep, 30 min presentation) and 5-6 cross functional interviews. Interviewers we’re sharp but not totally structured. Some repetition. Some much harder than others. Core values interview at end was nice. Not sure two were needed.

2 round interview process via Zoom. One with QA Lead and other with Sr. QA Lead. Both interviews went very well. As far as I knew these were not the decision makers so I thought I would be getting at least another interview with a decision maker. The outside recruiter that got me the interview came back and gave me some ridiculous reason why the company decided not to make an offer. He was surprised that the 2nd person I met with was even involved in the decision making because when I told him the name his response was he didn’t really know that person to be involved in final round interviews. I told him that I was expecting another interview because it went so well and the interviewer was saying things like “good answer” “that’s exactly what I was looking for in an answer”. and I thought we left off on a very strong note. I was not aware that this would be a final round interview either. I had so much more experience than the people that interviewed me that I felt something else was going on. I guess it’s better to get rejected before than getting hired and they come with some nonsense to then get rid of you. Lessons learned. Be careful of these guys. Airbnb now leaves a bad taste in my mouth

Recruiter screen was pretty straightforward. Hiring manager screen went over basic qualifications and some situational stuff. The people I met in the virtual onsite were nice, but hard to believe they are well calibrated / prepared for the interview since they were picking random questions from a list. A lot of "hmmm let me see... okay how about this question". If you're picking questions from a list you're seeing for the first time, how do you have a framework for what is a good answer and what is not?

Contacted me through LinkedIn, very formulaic phone screen; very yes/no questions, very meh experience. Was not surprised when I received a rejection letter three weeks later, but since they never question me about my experience how would they know what they’re missing

First call was an HR one to get context about the job offer. Second call was an exercise with someone that was overseas. Exercise wasn't clear, something about graph. Didn't pass to the second phase.