Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

The interviewer started immediately with a coding problem and didn’t really set context first. The task was about splitting a stay into two separate accommodations using available dates. I had to figure out how to allocate a date range across two hotels without overlaps.

My approach was to compress the available dates for each hotel into continuous intervals, then scan for a split point that would let the left segment be covered by one hotel and the right segment by the other. I spent a lot of time debugging and chasing edge cases to make sure every condition passed. It was one of those