Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

San Francisco, CAPosted Feb 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I ran into a couple friction points that made the technical round harder than it needed to be.

The interviewer used a coderpad setup and didn’t provide skeleton code. I managed to work through it by asking a lot of questions, even though it felt like the interviewer was reluctant to engage.

When I suggested what I thought was a completely acceptable approach, they quickly shut it down because they wanted something done their way. I ended up building to their preferred approach, and I ran out of time. The end result was that I didn’t get updates after the interview, even though it had been about a month.

It wasn’t just that I timed out—it was how the interaction shaped the work. The

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