Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

That loop included one coding round, a code review round, a system design round, and then a project deep dive / behavioral round.

I felt good about the behavioral and system design conversations, and I thought I communicated clearly there. The code review round was the opposite—it felt like a black hole, with an interviewer who rarely spoke and seemed disconnected the entire time. Both coding rounds were procedural rather than pure LeetCode, and the prompts were loaded with verbose descriptions that made it easy to get stuck on formatting and edge-case interpretation. I struggled to get