Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

The phone screen itself was practical and iOS-focused, with an algorithm question that didn’t feel like the usual LeetCode shuffle, which immediately made me feel more grounded.

A week or so later I went into a virtual onsite made up of four interviews before the behavioral rounds. One round was a hands-on iOS coding task where I was given an Xcode project and asked to implement features. Another interview focused on walking through my past projects, and I had to prepare visuals ahead of time as reference. Then came a system design/architecture conversation where they provided mocks for an