Airbnb Solutions Engineer interview experience

Interviewers seemed interested in understanding my background and how it connected to the role, and the whole thing had a “let’s learn about you” vibe rather than just ticking boxes.

My path followed a typical shape: recruiter call, then a technical interview, and then system design. I also ran into a code review interview that I hadn’t seen in other processes before, which made the experience feel a little more demanding and less predictable than the usual rounds. The overall difficulty landed around average for me—nothing felt impossible—but it did feel a bit trickier than “average”