Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

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Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Airbnb process dragged out more than I expected, but the interview content followed a pretty consistent rhythm: early recruiter screening, then a virtual onsite with coding, a code review, and system design.

After a recruiter step and some back-and-forth scheduling, I eventually started the virtual onsite where I got a coding challenge tied to booking systems. I went with a DFS approach and got through the provided test cases.

The next day involved a code review and system design. The code review was in Java and I had to complete three pull requests, which took a fair amount of focus. For system design, I was asked to design a booking system, and I remember feeling caught off-guard by pagination as part of the requirements. I also had a deeper discussion about my past experience, and that part

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