Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Posted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started after an initial hiring manager interview, and then the scheduling lag got noticeable—three weeks instead of the couple of days I was told.

When the technical interview finally happened, the tone immediately felt wrong. The interviewer came in dismissive and insecure, and it seemed like the goal was to reject me rather than evaluate me.

They asked for introductions and general talk early on and it took time that felt wasted. When I moved into clarifying questions during the coding portion, the interviewer gave contradictory answers—first agreeing, then reversing, and then drifting into unrelated explanations. At one point, right in the middle of the coding exercise, they stopped the technical flow to talk about the team.

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