Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

IndiaPosted Nov 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview started with a HackerRank screen that was honestly chaotic.

The interface couldn’t show the cursor properly, so I couldn’t write code the way I needed to. On top of that, the problem link the interviewer shared didn’t open on my side, so they ended up screen-sharing. Once I finally understood the prompt, the problem itself had multiple subparts, and the timing was so tight that I ended up running some of the work at the last moment.

The second round felt worse. I was given two problems: one I solved quickly and showed outputs for, and the other was more competitive-programming style. I walked through what I thought was a clean approach using a

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