Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

After that, I had an exploratory conversation with an engineering manager, and I was surprised that it played out more like a behavioral interview than a quick technical screen. I left that feeling positive because the feedback was generally good.

From there, I got pulled into multiple rounds that blended coding and systems thinking. There was a coding question involving deposit, withdraw, transaction handling, and maintaining balances, and I also worked through a “smallest number” type problem that wasn’t too hard conceptually. Then came system design, where I had to design a group chat