Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

It started with a phone screen and then progressed through multiple interviews—I got all the way through six interview rounds. After that, there was an extra staff-engineer interview and then reference checks.

The technical parts were demanding and specific. In the phone screen, I ran into a Combination Sum variant that required careful handling of floating-point comparison. After that, I felt like the remaining stages turned into a bit of a points-wall, and I didn’t make it through. In the end, one red flag from the reference checks was enough to stop the process even though I’d already