Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

I was asked to implement a URL parser from scratch, working through examples the interviewer gave me and talking through what to do when the input was invalid, especially at the end.

That same overall theme of “solve it, then explain yourself” showed up again when the next round turned into multiple coding problems. I worked through algorithmic tasks tied to very specific business-ish scenarios—refunds, skiing score logic, split stays, menu combinations, job scheduling, and even manipulating terrain. For each one, I had to write code and also walk through how I was thinking, which made the