Airbnb·Software Engineer

Airbnb Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience with Airbnb felt less like a normal interview cycle and more like a long string of delays.

Each step dragged on for more than a month, and the end result was that I lost interest well before it was over. The unresponsiveness from the recruiter made the whole process feel disconnected, and by the time updates finally mattered, I was already emotionally out.

When I did actually interview, the engineers I spoke with came across as disengaged and uninterested, which made the process feel flat rather than challenging in a productive way. Even when I reached the final stretch months later, I couldn’t really recapture momentum. There was also a separate point where I had reached the

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